Demos and Applications Session
Travel Social Networks
The new Internet-connected generations of tourists search for destinations and plan their trips through online services. A new way of doing so is through ”travel social networks”, in which regular people share their opinion about touristic places. In such networks, the information is always updated and not biased according to agencies interests. However, there are two major problems: searching for a place in such networks the user to know where she or he wants to go, and acquiring knowledge about it requires reading its reviews, which vary from a handful to hundreds of texts. In this paper, we describe a new, exciting tool that automatically crawls different travel social networks, aggregates their content, tags them, allows to search for such tags, performs sentiment analysis and summarizes the reviews through word clouds.
Antonio H. G. Leite, Fabricio Benevenuto, Mirella M. Moro