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This paper presents a test collection for contextual point of interest (POI) recommendation in a narrative-driven scenario. There, user history is not available, instead, user requests are described in natural language. The requests in our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jafar Afzali , Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki , Krisztian Balog

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control recommendations. Nevertheless, research in the field is still limited,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jie Zou , Yifan Chen , Evangelos Kanoulas

Identifying a preferable route is an important problem that finds applications in map services. When a user plans a trip within a city, the user may want to find "a most popular route such that it passes by shopping mall, restaurant, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Xin Cao , Lisi Chen , Gao Cong , Xiaokui Xiao

The objective of this research is how an implementation of AI algorithms in the microservices architecture enhances travel itineraries by cost, time, user preferences, and environmental sustainability. It uses machine learning models for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Biman Barua , M. Shamim Kaiser

Path recommendation (PR) aims to generate travel paths that are customized to a user's specific preferences and constraints. Conventional approaches often employ explicit optimization objectives or specialized machine learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Steeve Cuthbert Marcelyn , Yucen Gao , Yuzhe Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao

Our goal is to answer real-world tourism questions that seek Points-of-Interest (POI) recommendations. Such questions express various kinds of spatial and non-spatial constraints, necessitating a combination of textual and spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Danish Contractor , Shashank Goel , Mausam , Parag Singla

Advancing large language models (LLMs) for the next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation task faces two fundamental challenges: (i) although existing methods produce semantic IDs that incorporate semantic information, their topology-blind…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Peibo Li , Shuang Ao , Hao Xue , Yang Song , Maarten de Rijke , Johan Barthélemy , Tomasz Bednarz , Flora D. Salim

Recommending Points-of-Interest (POIs) is surfacing in many location-based applications. The literature contains personalized and socialized POI recommendation approaches which employ historical check-ins and social links to make…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani , Sruthi Viswanathan , Jean-Michel Renders

Answering real-world tourism questions that seek Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendations is challenging, as it requires both spatial and non-spatial reasoning, over a large candidate pool. The traditional method of encoding each pair of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Haonan Li , Martin Tomko , Timothy Baldwin

Existing spatial object recommendation algorithms generally treat objects identically when ranking them. However, spatial objects often cover different levels of spatial granularity and thereby are heterogeneous. For example, one user may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hui Luo , Jingbo Zhou , Zhifeng Bao , Shuangli Li , J. Shane Culpepper , Haochao Ying , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application in location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. However, previous POI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Shenglin Zhao , Tong Zhao , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has made natural language-driven route planning an emerging research area that encompasses rich user objectives. Current research exhibits two distinct approaches: direct route planning using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Liangqi Yuan , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton , Sabine Brunswicker

Personalization is well studied in search and recommendation, but personalized question answering remains underexplored due to challenges in inferring preferences from long, noisy, implicit contexts and generating responses that are both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Alireza Salemi , Cheng Li , Mingyang Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei , Zhuowan Li , Spurthi Amba Hombaiah , Weize Kong , Tao Chen , Hamed Zamani , Michael Bendersky

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a longstanding problem across the domains of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) and transportation. Recent Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based approaches learn POI-POI relationships in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Nicholas Lim , Bryan Hooi , See-Kiong Ng , Xueou Wang , Yong Liang Goh , Renrong Weng , Jagannadan Varadarajan

Multi-interest learning method for sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item according to user multi-faceted interests given the user historical interactions. Existing methods mainly consist of a multi-interest extractor that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xue Dong , Xuemeng Song , Tongliang Liu , Weili Guan

An essential aspect of prioritizing incident tickets for resolution is efficiently labeling tickets with fine-grained categories. However, ticket data is often complex and poses several unique challenges for modern machine learning methods:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhexiong Liu , Cris Benge , Siduo Jiang

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a fundamental task in location-based services. While recent advances leverage Large Language Model (LLM) for sequential modeling, existing LLM-based approaches face two key limitations: (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dongsheng Wang , Shen Gao , Chengrui Huang , Yuxi Huang , Ruixiang Feng , Shuo Shang

POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiangnan Xia , Yu Yang , Senzhang Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu

The popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has led to a tremendous amount of user check-in data. Recommending points of interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users' needs in LBSNs. While recent work has explored the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Dimitrios Rafailidis , Fabio Crestani

Recommending appropriate travel destinations to consumers based on contextual information such as their check-in time and location is a primary objective of Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems. However, the issue of contextual bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Ali Tourani , Yashar Deldjoo