Program

Workshop Schedule

14:00 – 15:25 (SGT) On-site/Hybrid Session 1

  • 14:00 – 14:05 Welcome
  • 14:05 – 14:45 Keynote (hybrid): Fast, Flexible and Personalized: Leveraging Bandits for Travel Recommendations by Andrea Marchini (Expedia Group)
  • 14:45 – 15:05 Emanuele Cavenaghi, Alessio Zanga, Alessandro Rimoldi, Paolo Minasi, Markus Zanker and Fabio Stella: Analysis of Relevant Factors in Online Hotel Recommendation Through Causal Models
  • 15:05 – 15:25 Hidetsugu Nanba and Satoshi Fukuda: Automatic Detection of Geotagged Food-Related Videos Using Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

16:05 – 17:25 (SGT) On-site/Hybrid Session 2

  • 16:05 – 16:45 Keynote (hybrid): Scaling and Standardising ML experimentation for Ranking by Kostia Kofman (Booking.com)
  • 16:45 – 17:05 Keisuke Otaki and Yukino Baba: Extended Travel Itinerary Datasets Towards Reproducibility
  • 17:05 – 17:25 Ngai Lam Ho, Roy Ka-Wei Lee and Kwan Hui Lim: BTRec: BERT-based Trajectory Recommendation for Personalized Tours

17:30 – 18:30 (SGT) Virtual Session

  • 17:30 – 17:50 Haya Halimeh, Florian Freese and Oliver Müller: Event Recommendations through the Lens of Vision and Language Foundation Models
  • 17:50 18:10 Justin Tolle, Alexander Piazza, Carolin Kaiser and Rene Schallner: Decision Support in Tourism through Social Robots: Design and Evaluation of a Conversation-Based Recommendation Approach Based on Tourist Segments
  • 18:10 – 18:30 Closing

Workshop Proceedings

The RecTour 2023 Proceedings have been published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol-3568).