Personalized Hotel Recommendation Using Text Mining and Mobile Browsing Tracking

With the prevalence of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the ways people access to the Internet have changed enormously. In addition to the information that can be recorded by traditional Web-based e-commerce like frequent online shopping stores and browsing histories, mobile devices are capable of tracking sophisticated browsing behavior. The aim of this study is to utilize users' browsing behavior of reading hotel reviews on mobile devices and subsequently apply text-mining techniques to construct user interest profiles to make personalized hotel recommendations. Specifically, we design and implement an app where the user can search hotels and browse hotel reviews, and every gesture the user has performed on the touch screen when reading the hotel reviews is recorded. We then identify the paragraphs of hotel reviews that a user has shown interests based on the gestures the user has performed. Text mining techniques are applied to construct the interest profile of the user according to the review content the user has seriously read. We collect more than 5,000 reviews of hotels in Taipei, the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan, and recruit 18 users to participate in the experiment. Experimental results demonstrate that the recommendations made by our system better match the user's hotel selections than previous approaches.

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