Tentative Workshop Schedule
09:00 – 09:30: Opening and Welcome [Slides]
09:30 – 10:30: Keynote Presentation [Slides]
Speaker: Alejandro Bellogín
Title: Expanding the Boundaries: Recommender Systems and the Multifaceted World of Tourism
10:30 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45: Paper Session 1
- TRACE: Transformer-based User Representations from Attributed Clickstream Event Sequences. By William Black, Alex Manlove, Jack Pennington, Andrea Marchini, Ercument Ilhan, and Vilda Markeviciute. [Slides]
- Multi-funnel Recommender System for Cold Item Boosting. By Ahmed Khaili, Kostia Kofman, Edgar Cano, Adva Hadrian, and Andrew Mende. [Slides]
- Structured Entity Extraction from Travel Videos Using Vision-Language Models. By Kevin Dela Rosa. [Slides]
- Lifecycle of Promotional Campaigns in the Online Travel Industry. By Carlos Herrero, Amit Livne, Itsik Adiv, Hugo Manuel Proença, Felipe Moraes, Javier Albert, and Dima Goldenberg. [Slides]
12:45 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00: Paper Session 2
- SMARTIE: Smart Museum for All Using a Range of Technology for Inclusive Experience. By Alexandra Danial-Saad, Yael Avni, Julia Sheidin, and Tsvi Kuflik. [Slides]
- A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Tourism Review Generation. By Hiromasa Yamanishi, Ling Xiao, and Toshihiko Yamasaki. [Slides]
- A Roadmap for Privacy Preserving Tourist Recommendation Systems. By Alan Wecker, Noa Tuval, Alain Hertz, Mohammad Mahamid, and Tsvi Kuflik. [Slides]
- Journey to Centralizing Destination Recommendations. By Maria Prosviryakova, Gaurav Misra, Sebastien Le Digabel, and Rodrigo Villatoro. [Slides]
16:00 – 16:45: Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:15: Challenge Presentations and Closing
- Booking.com RecSys RecTour 2024 Challenge. By Amit Livne and Eran Fainman. [Slides]
- Solution to the Personalized Accommodation Review Ranking Task via Tabular Data Approach. By Yu Tokutake. [Slides]
- Accommodation Review Ranking for Tourism Recommendation. By Emrul Hasan, Chen Ding, Sajib Saha, Neelima Preeti, and Abdul Halim. [Slides]
- ProfileRec: Efficient Accommodation Review Ranking using Sentence Embeddings and Nearest-Neighbor Search. By Rajorshi Chaudhuri, Pranav Bhatki, and Yash Dubal.
- Workshop Closing
Note: The presentation length of each paper is 15 minutes (name of presenting authors in bold). After that, there will be time for discussion (approximately 5 minutes).