Personalised Travel Recommendation based on Location Co-occurrence

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Autores principales: Clements, Maarten, Serdyukov, Pavel, de Vries, Arjen P., Reinders, Marcel J. T.
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author Clements, Maarten
Serdyukov, Pavel
de Vries, Arjen P.
Reinders, Marcel J. T.
author_facet Clements, Maarten
Serdyukov, Pavel
de Vries, Arjen P.
Reinders, Marcel J. T.
contents We propose a new task of recommending touristic locations based on a user's visiting history in a geographically remote region. This can be used to plan a touristic visit to a new city or country, or by travel agencies to provide personalised travel deals. A set of geotags is used to compute a location similarity model between two different regions. The similarity between two landmarks is derived from the number of users that have visited both places, using a Gaussian density estimation of the co-occurrence space of location visits to cluster related geotags. The standard deviation of the kernel can be used as a scale parameter that determines the size of the recommended landmarks. A personalised recommendation based on the location similarity model is evaluated on city and country scale and is able to outperform a location ranking based on popularity. Especially when a tourist filter based on visit duration is enforced, the prediction can be accurately adapted to the preference of the user. An extensive evaluation based on manual annotations shows that more strict ranking methods like cosine similarity and a proposed RankDiff algorithm provide more serendipitous recommendations and are able to link similar locations on opposite sides of the world.
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spellingShingle Personalised Travel Recommendation based on Location Co-occurrence
Clements, Maarten
Serdyukov, Pavel
de Vries, Arjen P.
Reinders, Marcel J. T.
Information Retrieval
H.3.5; H.3.3; H.2.8
We propose a new task of recommending touristic locations based on a user's visiting history in a geographically remote region. This can be used to plan a touristic visit to a new city or country, or by travel agencies to provide personalised travel deals. A set of geotags is used to compute a location similarity model between two different regions. The similarity between two landmarks is derived from the number of users that have visited both places, using a Gaussian density estimation of the co-occurrence space of location visits to cluster related geotags. The standard deviation of the kernel can be used as a scale parameter that determines the size of the recommended landmarks. A personalised recommendation based on the location similarity model is evaluated on city and country scale and is able to outperform a location ranking based on popularity. Especially when a tourist filter based on visit duration is enforced, the prediction can be accurately adapted to the preference of the user. An extensive evaluation based on manual annotations shows that more strict ranking methods like cosine similarity and a proposed RankDiff algorithm provide more serendipitous recommendations and are able to link similar locations on opposite sides of the world.
title Personalised Travel Recommendation based on Location Co-occurrence
topic Information Retrieval
H.3.5; H.3.3; H.2.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5213