Causal relationship between eWOM topics and profit of rural tourism at Japanese Roadside Stations "MICHINOEKI"

Affected by urbanization, centralization and the decrease of overall population, Japan has been making efforts to revitalize the rural areas across the country. One particular effort is to increase tourism to these rural areas via regional branding, using local farm products as tourist attractions across Japan. Particularly, a program subsidized by the government called Michinoeki, which stands for 'roadside station', was created 20 years ago and it strives to provide a safe and comfortable space for cultural interaction between road travelers and the local community, as well as offering refreshment, and relevant information to travelers. However, despite its importance in the revitalization of the Japanese economy, studies with newer technologies and methodologies are lacking. Using sales data from establishments in the Kyushu area of Japan, we used Support Vector to classify content from Twitter into relevant topics and studied their causal relationship to the sales for each establishment using LiNGAM, a linear non-gaussian acyclic model built for causal structure analysis, to perform an improved market analysis considering more than just correlation. Under the hypotheses stated by the LiNGAM model, we discovered a positive causal relationship between the number of tweets mentioning those establishments, specially mentioning deserts, a need for better access and traf^ic options, and a potentially untapped customer base in motorcycle biker groups

Exploring The Value Of Folksonomies For Creating Semantic Metadata

Finding good keywords to describe resources is an on-going problem: typically we select such words manually from a thesaurus of terms, or they are created using automatic keyword extraction techniques. Folksonomies are an increasingly well populated source of unstructured tags describing web resources. This paper explores the value of the folksonomy tags as potential source of keyword metadata by examining the relationship between folksonomies, community produced annotations, and keywords extracted by machines. The experiment has been carried-out in two ways: subjectively, by asking two human indexers to evaluate the quality of the generated keywords from both systems; and automatically, by measuring the percentage of overlap between the folksonomy set and machine generated keywords set. The results of this experiment show that the folksonomy tags agree more closely with the human generated keywords than those automatically generated. The results also showed that the trained indexers preferred the semantics of folksonomy tags compared to keywords extracted automatically. These results can be considered as evidence for the strong relationship of folksonomies to the human indexer’s mindset, demonstrating that folksonomies used in the del.icio.us bookmarking service are a potential source for generating semantic metadata to annotate web resources

Multi-document Summarization Based on Sentence Clustering Improved Using Topic Words

Informasi dalam bentuk teks berita telah menjadi salah satu komoditas yang paling penting dalam era informasi ini. Ada banyak berita yang dihasilkan sehari-hari, tetapi berita-berita ini sering memberikan konten kontekstual yang sama dengan narasi berbeda. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan metode untuk mengumpulkan informasi ini ke dalam ringkasan sederhana. Di antara sejumlah subtugas yang terlibat dalam peringkasan multi-dokumen termasuk ekstraksi kalimat, deteksi topik, ekstraksi kalimat representatif, dan kalimat rep-resentatif. Dalam tulisan ini, kami mengusulkan metode baru untuk merepresentasikan kalimat ber-dasarkan kata kunci dari topic teks menggunakan Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Metode ini terdiri dari tiga langkah dasar. Pertama, kami mengelompokkan kalimat di set dokumen menggunakan kesamaan histogram pengelompokan (SHC). Selanjutnya, peringkat cluster menggunakan klaster penting. Terakhir, kalimat perwakilan yang dipilih oleh topik diidentifikasi pada LDA. Metode yang diusulkan diuji pada dataset DUC2004. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan rata-rata 0,3419 dan 0,0766 untuk ROUGE-1 dan ROUGE-2, masing-masing. Selain itu, dari pembaca prespective, metode kami diusulkan menyajikan pengaturan yang koheren dan baik dalam memesan kalimat representatif, sehingga dapat mempermudah pemahaman bacaan dan mengurangi waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk membaca ringkasan

NEXT LEVEL: A COURSE RECOMMENDER SYSTEM BASED ON CAREER INTERESTS

Skills-based hiring is a talent management approach that empowers employers to align recruitment around business results, rather than around credentials and title. It starts with employers identifying the particular skills required for a role, and then screening and evaluating candidates’ competencies against those requirements. With the recent rise in employers adopting skills-based hiring practices, it has become integral for students to take courses that improve their marketability and support their long-term career success. A 2017 survey of over 32,000 students at 43 randomly selected institutions found that only 34% of students believe they will graduate with the skills and knowledge required to be successful in the job market. Furthermore, the study found that while 96% of chief academic officers believe that their institutions are very or somewhat effective at preparing students for the workforce, only 11% of business leaders strongly agree [11]. An implication of the misalignment is that college graduates lack the skills that companies need and value. Fortunately, the rise of skills-based hiring provides an opportunity for universities and students to establish and follow clearer classroom-to-career pathways. To this end, this paper presents a course recommender system that aims to improve students’ career readiness by suggesting relevant skills and courses based on their unique career interests