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The main goal of the workshop is to foster collaboration between the engineering/scientist community and the community of travel and tourism industry. The engineering/scientist community will discover a new field of application with new data, vocabularies, challenges and opportunities. On the other hand, the Travel and Tourism experts will have the opportunity to discover technologies and paradigms, which has been successfully exploited in other areas, that can enhance significantly their productivity.
Travel and Tourism is a multibillion-dollar industry having a major impact on the global economy. An increasing number of people use applications on the Web to plan their trips. Although current applications are focused on humans, in the era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, there is a need for machine-readable data.
Semantic Web techniques such as ontologies or vocabularies allow domain experts to represent knowledge with explicit semantics in a machine-readable way. Besides, datasets can be transformed and integrated with this knowledge in order to create the so-called Knowledge Graphs. Such Knowledge Graphs, together with Machine Learning techniques, are used by popular applications such as Siri, Google Now, or Alexa. The success of these applications depends on the existence of high-quality knowledge graphs.
While Knowledge Graphs have been successfully used in other domains such as finance, medical or e-commerce, little attention has been paid to apply these technologies in the Tourism and Travel industry. Thus, the goal of this workshop is to raise the awareness of the importance of Knowledge Graphs on the travel industry and discuss their usage, challenges, enhancement, and ways of commercial exploitation of knowledge graphs.
BIS 2019 will be focused on the multidisciplinary discussion about Data Science, joining engineering/scientific and business sides, and its impact on current enterprises. TourismKG 2019 focus will be aligned with BIS 2019: to inspire engineers/scientists to share theoretical and practical knowledge of the different aspects related to Data Science, and to help them transform their ideas into the innovations of tomorrow, with emphasis on the business model on the generation/use of Tourism Knowledge Graph
More information: TourismKG.github.io
Topics of interest
- Open Data, Proprietary Data, Semantic Web and Tourism
- Discovery and reuse of tourism data from open data portals
- Impact of Open Data in tourism
- Tourist attraction ranking using open indicators
- Linked (Open) Data and tourism
- Travel and tourism data in DBpedia, Wikidata
- Ontologies and Vocabularies for Travel and Tourism
- User Requirements life cycle for Travel and Tourism
- Vocabularies, thesauri, metadata schemas, and ontologies
- Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Use and development of standards, such as SKOS, etc.
- Ontology design patterns for Travel and Tourisms
- Knowledge Graph Generation and Completion for Travel and Tourism
- Automatic information extraction; open information extraction, named entity extraction; ontology construction
- Manual information extraction (crowdsourcing)
- Entity resolution, relation extraction, information integration
- Data transformation (CSV, XML, JSON, etc. to Knowledge Graph)
- Data streams, online/on-the-fly adaptation of travel and tourism knowledge
- Techniques, applications and business models based on Knowledge Graphs for Travel and Tourism
- Question-answering using KBs
- Conversational systems (e.g. chatbots, voice assistants)
- E-tourism services
- Tourism recommender systems
- Intelligent trip planners
- Knowledge discovery and data mining on travel and tourism knowledge graphs
- Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial)
- Machine learning and NLP techniques
Submission guidelines
- Long papers: max. 12 pages
Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template.
Submission system is available at EasyChair.
Papers approved for presentation at TourismKG 2019 will be published in BIS 2019 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2019 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail.
Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference.
Important dates
- April 15, 2019 – submission deadline for papers
- May 15, 2019 – notification of acceptance/rejection
- May 27, 2019 – submission of final papers (for presentation)
- June 26-28, 2019 – the workshop
Organizers and Chairs
- Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Freddy Priyatna, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Program Committee
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, IBM Research, US
- Idafen Santana, ISTAC, Las Palmas, Spain
- Miriam Scaglione, Institut Tourisme, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
To be extended…
Contact
- Mariano Rico – mariano.rico@upm.es