Generating Supplementary Travel Guides from Social Media

• Main Authors: YANG, Liu, JIANG, Jing, HUANG, Lifu, QIU, Minghui, LIAO, Lizi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2413; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3413/viewcontent/C14_1158.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper we study how to summarize travel-related information in forum threads to generate supplementary travel guides. Such summaries presumably can provide additional and more up-to-date information to tourists. Existing multi-document summarization methods have limitations for this task beca...