SEMTOUR: HK – A TOURIST INFORMATION SYSTEM

Toby H. W. Lam and James N. K. Liu
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Toby H. W. Lam: Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
James N. K. Liu: Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Chapter 21 in Challenges in Information Technology Management, 2008, pp 137-144 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractCurrent Internet search engines do not always return results that users find useful, not least because the markup languages that are typically used only allow keyword searches. Semantic Web is a collection of web technologies that include a number of markup languages, such as RDF, OWL and RDFS, which can be used to model domain ontologies. Domain ontologies provide humans and computers (software agents) with a common understanding of a resource structure and help the creation of more effective web search systems. In this paper, we use Web Ontology Language (OWL) to model a travel domain ontology. Rather than inviting an expert to model the ontology, we create the travel ontology by collecting and analyzing the structural information from a number of travel related websites. The model is used to implement a tourist information portal, SemTour:HK, which is constructed using Semantic Web technologies.

Keywords: Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Computing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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