The Research Project - Preliminary Proposal Presentation Contextual Suggestion Track: Travel Plan Recommendation System Based on Open-web Information Presenter: Sherry ZHU

Gist of the Presentation Motivation and Background Information Research Problem Proposed Research Design Plan for data collection Goal of the Paper

Motivation and Background Information Information and Information needs – growing complexity Previous studies have shown the difficulty of extracting proper information based on an individual user’s interests and needs Instead of search techniques, recommendation system might be a solution to effectively generate personalized results

Research Problem Proposed to develop a system that is able to make suggestions for a particular user, based upon their profiles, with particular context. Specifically, a travel plan recommendation system based on open-web information of Yelp

Proposed Research Design 1)The system will classify users based on their browsing history, a dataset drawn from TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) Webiste 2)Combine the information based on classification and ranking from Yelp to produce a list of choices that matches the particular user’s needs 3)Estimating a total of 60 users’ profiles will be drawn randomly from the dataset to be studied in the research

Data Collection 1)User’s history of browsing to get his/her profile preferences - for system classification 2) Open-Web source of Yelp’s APP ( to generate the recommendation listhttp://

Goal of the Paper Describing the proposed model Obtaining results by simulating the model Making analytical predictions Comparing with similar works