• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.91-103
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• 2024

A tourist destination ranking system was designed that employs a semantic search to extract information with reasonable accuracy. To this end the process involves collecting data, preprocessing text reviews of tourist spots, and embedding the corpus and queries with SBERT. We calculate the similarity between data points, filter out those below a specified threshold, and then rank the remaining tourist destinations using a count-based algorithm to align them semantically with the query. To assess the efficacy of the ranking algorithm experiments were conducted with four queries. Furthermore, 58,175 sentences were directly labeled to ascertain their semantic relevance to the third query, 'crowdedness'. Notably, human-labeled data for crowdedness showed similar results. Despite challenges including optimizing thresholds and imbalanced data, this study shows that a semantic search is a powerful method for understanding user intent and recommending tourist destinations with less time and costs.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.343-350
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• 2010

We can get answers we want to know via questioning in Knowledge Search Service (KSS) based on Q&A Community. However, it is getting more difficult to find credible documents in enormous documents, since many anonymous users regardless of credibility are participate in answering on the question. In previous works in KSS, researchers evaluated the quality of documents based on textual information, e.g. recommendation count, click count and non-textual information, e.g. answer length, attached data, conjunction count. Then, the evaluation results are used for enhancing search performance. However, the non-textual information has a problem that it is difficult to get enough information by users in the early stage of Q&A. The textual information also has a limitation for evaluating quality because of judgement by partial factors such as answer length, conjunction counts. In this paper, we propose the QualityRank algorithm to improve the problem by textual and non-textual information. This algorithm ranks the relevant and credible answers by considering textual/non-textual information and user centrality based on Social Network Analysis(SNA). Based on experimental validation we can confirm that the results by our algorithm is improved than those of textual/non-textual in terms of ranking performance.