| Generating Personal Travel Guides from Discourse Plans (2000) | |||||||||||||||
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| This paper describes a system that delivers travel guides tailored to individual needs. It does so by integrating a discourse planner with a system for querying the web and generating synthesised web pages using document prescriptions. We show by way of example how a user model can lead to a personal travel guide, and show what this might look like in different media. We briefly describe the investigations we are undertaking to determine the utility of such approaches. 1. Tailored Travel Guides There is an increasing emphasis on the delivery of information that is tailored to individual needs. This paper describes an approach to delivery that assumes a user profile, a discourse model, and a set of web data sources, and delivers information from those sources in a coherent form to a variety of media including paper, Palm Pilots, and the web. The approach requires developing a system that integrates a discourse planner with a web query and document synthesis technology. Both components need to be informed by the user model, and a model of travel guides. There are currently several commercial travel information web guides that allow some degree of tailoring. These sites operate by having a user provide answers to a set of questions, and the information is delivered by applying a filter to the information resources held at the site, and then deliver a standard structured web page or pages. | |||||||||||||||
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