Investigating the effectiveness of computer-produced summaries obtained from multiple travel blog entries

Shumpei Iinuma (), Hidetsugu Nanba () and Toshiyuki Takezawa ()
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Shumpei Iinuma: Hiroshima City University
Hidetsugu Nanba: Hiroshima City University
Toshiyuki Takezawa: Hiroshima City University

Information Technology & Tourism, 2019, vol. 21, issue 1, No 7, 83-103

Abstract: Abstract The evolution of information and communication technology now makes it possible to collect travel information in a variety of ways. Social media content that includes blogs is one such useful information source when planning a trip. This paper proposes a method for generating a summary of multiple travel blog entries that contain images. The proposed method identifies significant sentences in addition to the images by using a graph-based approach that considers travelers’ types of behavior. To investigate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conducted two experiments: (1) evaluation of the quality of summaries and (2) evaluation of the effectiveness of these summaries. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method, LexRank + Image, can outperform state-of-the-art baseline methods for both evaluations. It was also confirmed that the proposed method could produce summaries containing new information not included in travel guidebooks. A system was implemented for generating summaries based on the proposed method.

Keywords: Travel blog; Multimedia summarization; Travel information processing; LexRank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s40558-018-0132-9

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