scholarly journals A Context-Aware Location Recommendation System for Tourists Using Hierarchical LSTM Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4107
Author(s):  
Wafa Shafqat ◽  
Yung-Cheol Byun

The significance of contextual data has been recognized by analysts and specialists in numerous disciplines such as customization, data recovery, ubiquitous and versatile processing, information mining, and management. While a generous research has just been performed in the zone of recommender frameworks, by far most of the existing approaches center on prescribing the most relevant items to customers. It usually neglects extra-contextual information, for example time, area, climate or the popularity of different locations. Therefore, we proposed a deep long-short term memory (LSTM) based context-enriched hierarchical model. This proposed model had two levels of hierarchy and each level comprised of a deep LSTM network. In each level, the task of the LSTM was different. At the first level, LSTM learned from user travel history and predicted the next location probabilities. A contextual learning unit was active between these two levels. This unit extracted maximum possible contexts related to a location, the user and its environment such as weather, climate and risks. This unit also estimated other effective parameters such as the popularity of a location. To avoid feature congestion, XGBoost was used to rank feature importance. The features with no importance were discarded. At the second level, another LSTM framework was used to learn these contextual features embedded with location probabilities and resulted into top ranked places. The performance of the proposed approach was elevated with an accuracy of 97.2%, followed by gated recurrent unit (GRU) (96.4%) and then Bidirectional LSTM (94.2%). We also performed experiments to find the optimal size of travel history for effective recommendations.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
J. Shobana ◽  
M. Murali

Text Sentiment analysis is the process of predicting whether a segment of text has opinionated or objective content and analyzing the polarity of the text’s sentiment. Understanding the needs and behavior of the target customer plays a vital role in the success of the business so the sentiment analysis process would help the marketer to improve the quality of the product as well as a shopper to buy the correct product. Due to its automatic learning capability, deep learning is the current research interest in Natural language processing. Skip-gram architecture is used in the proposed model for better extraction of the semantic relationships as well as contextual information of words. However, the main contribution of this work is Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) algorithm based LSTM for sentiment analysis. LSTM is used in the proposed model for understanding complex patterns in textual data. To improve the performance of the LSTM, weight parameters are enhanced by presenting the Adaptive PSO algorithm. Opposition based learning (OBL) method combined with PSO algorithm becomes the Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) classifier which assists LSTM in selecting optimal weight for the environment in less number of iterations. So APSO - LSTM ‘s ability in adjusting the attributes such as optimal weights and learning rates combined with the good hyper parameter choices leads to improved accuracy and reduces losses. Extensive experiments were conducted on four datasets proved that our proposed APSO-LSTM model secured higher accuracy over the classical methods such as traditional LSTM, ANN, and SVM. According to simulation results, the proposed model is outperforming other existing models.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Shun-Chieh Hsieh

The need for accurate tourism demand forecasting is widely recognized. The unreliability of traditional methods makes tourism demand forecasting still challenging. Using deep learning approaches, this study aims to adapt Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit networks (GRU), which are straightforward and efficient, to improve Taiwan’s tourism demand forecasting. The networks are able to seize the dependence of visitor arrival time series data. The Adam optimization algorithm with adaptive learning rate is used to optimize the basic setup of the models. The results show that the proposed models outperform previous studies undertaken during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) events of 2002–2003. This article also examines the effects of the current COVID-19 outbreak to tourist arrivals to Taiwan. The results show that the use of the LSTM network and its variants can perform satisfactorily for tourism demand forecasting.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-520
Author(s):  
Chen Zhang ◽  
Qingxu Li ◽  
Xue Cheng

The convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network are adept at extracting local and global features, respectively. Both can achieve excellent classification effects. However, the CNN performs poorly in extracting the global contextual information of the text, while LSTM often overlooks the features hidden between words. For text sentiment classification, this paper combines the CNN with bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM) into a parallel hybrid model called CNN_BiLSTM. Firstly, the CNN was adopted to extract the local features of the text quickly. Next, the BiLSTM was employed to obtain the global text features containing contextual semantics. After that, the features extracted by the two neural networks (NNs) were fused, and processed by Softmax classifier for text sentiment classification. To verify its performance, the CNN_BiLSTM was compared with single NNs like CNN and LSTM, as well as other deep learning (DL) NNs through experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed parallel hybrid model outperformed the contrastive methods in F1-score and accuracy. Therefore, our model can solve text sentiment classification tasks effectively, and boast better practical value than other NNs.


Author(s):  
Ammar Alnahhas ◽  
Bassel Alkhatib

As the data on the online social networks is getting larger, it is important to build personalized recommendation systems that recommend suitable content to users, there has been much research in this field that uses conceptual representations of text to match user models with best content. This article presents a novel method to build a user model that depends on conceptual representation of text by using ConceptNet concepts that exceed the named entities to include the common-sense meaning of words and phrases. The model includes the contextual information of concepts as well, the authors also show a novel method to exploit the semantic relations of the knowledge base to extend user models, the experiment shows that the proposed model and associated recommendation algorithms outperform all previous methods as a detailed comparison shows in this article.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Han ◽  
Cheng Wang ◽  
Yibin Ren ◽  
Shukang Wang ◽  
Huangcheng Zheng ◽  
...  

The accurate prediction of bus passenger flow is the key to public transport management and the smart city. A long short-term memory network, a deep learning method for modeling sequences, is an efficient way to capture the time dependency of passenger flow. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have sought to apply the LSTM model to passenger flow prediction. However, few of them pay attention to the optimization procedure during model training. In this article, we propose a hybrid, optimized LSTM network based on Nesterov accelerated adaptive moment estimation (Nadam) and the stochastic gradient descent algorithm (SGD). This method trains the model with high efficiency and accuracy, solving the problems of inefficient training and misconvergence that exist in complex models. We employ a hybrid optimized LSTM network to predict the actual passenger flow in Qingdao, China and compare the prediction results with those obtained by non-hybrid LSTM models and conventional methods. In particular, the proposed model brings about a 4%–20% extra performance improvements compared with those of non-hybrid LSTM models. We have also tried combinations of other optimization algorithms and applications in different models, finding that optimizing LSTM by switching Nadam to SGD is the best choice. The sensitivity of the model to its parameters is also explored, which provides guidance for applying this model to bus passenger flow data modelling. The good performance of the proposed model in different temporal and spatial scales shows that it is more robust and effective, which can provide insightful support and guidance for dynamic bus scheduling and regional coordination scheduling.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyuan Li ◽  
Fei Ding ◽  
Suju Ren ◽  
Jianmin Bao ◽  
Ruoyu Su ◽  
...  

Abstract Due to the heterogeneous characteristics of vehicles and user terminals, information in mixed traffic scenarios can be interacted based on the Web protocol of different terminals. The recommendation system can dig users' travel preferences by analyzing historical travel information of different traffic participants, to publish accurate travel information and services for the terminals of traffic participants. The diversification of existing road network users and networking modes, as well as the dynamic changes of user interest distribution caused by high-speed movement of vehicles, traditional collaborative filtering algorithms have limitations in terms of effectiveness. This paper proposes a novel Hybrid Tag-aware Recommender Model (HTRM). The model embedding layer first employs the Word2vec model to represent the tags and ratings of projects and users, respectively. The feature layer then introduces the auto-encoder to extract self-similar features of the item, and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network is used to extract user behavior characteristics to provide higher-quality recommendations. The gating layer combines the features of users and projects and then makes score recommendations based on the Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN). Finally, Web data sets of different service preferences of traffic participants during the trip are used to evaluate the model recommendation performance in different scenarios. The experimental results show that the HTRM model is reasonable in design and can achieve high recommendation accuracy.


Author(s):  
Mert Oz ◽  
Caner Kaya ◽  
Erdi Olmezogullari ◽  
Mehmet S. Aktas

With the advent of web 2.0, web application architectures have been evolved, and their complexity has grown enormously. Due to the complexity, testing of web applications is getting time-consuming and intensive process. In today’s web applications, users can achieve the same goal by performing different actions. To ensure that the entire system is safe and robust, developers try to test all possible user action sequences in the testing phase. Since the space of all the possibilities is enormous, covering all user action sequences can be impossible. To automate the test script generation task and reduce the space of the possible user action sequences, we propose a novel method based on long short-term memory (LSTM) network for generating test scripts from user clickstream data. The experiment results clearly show that generated hidden test sequences are user-like sequences, and the process of generating test scripts with the proposed model is less time-consuming than writing them manually.


Author(s):  
J. Shobana ◽  
M. Murali

AbstractSentiment analysis is the process of determining the sentiment polarity (positivity, neutrality or negativity) of the text. As online markets have become more popular over the past decades, online retailers and merchants are asking their buyers to share their opinions about the products they have purchased. As a result, millions of reviews are generated daily, making it difficult to make a good decision about whether a consumer should buy a product. Analyzing these enormous concepts is difficult and time-consuming for product manufacturers. Deep learning is the current research interest in Natural language processing. In the proposed model, Skip-gram architecture is used for better feature extraction of semantic and contextual information of words. LSTM (long short-term memory) is used in the proposed model for understanding complex patterns in textual data. To improve the performance of the LSTM, weight parameters are optimized by the adaptive particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. Extensive experiments were conducted on four datasets proved that our proposed APSO-LSTM model secured higher accuracy over the classical methods such as traditional LSTM, ANN, and SVM. According to simulation results, the proposed model is outperforming other existing models in different metrics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (S6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiu Kumar ◽  
Ronesh Sharma ◽  
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda ◽  
Thirumananseri Kumarevel ◽  
Alok Sharma

Abstract Background The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and within a few months, it has become a global pandemic. This forced many affected countries to take stringent measures such as complete lockdown, shutting down businesses and trade, as well as travel restrictions, which has had a tremendous economic impact. Therefore, having knowledge and foresight about how a country might be able to contain the spread of COVID-19 will be of paramount importance to the government, policy makers, business partners and entrepreneurs. To help social and administrative decision making, a model that will be able to forecast when a country might be able to contain the spread of COVID-19 is needed. Results The results obtained using our long short-term memory (LSTM) network-based model are promising as we validate our prediction model using New Zealand’s data since they have been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 and bring the daily new cases tally to zero. Our proposed forecasting model was able to correctly predict the dates within which New Zealand was able to contain the spread of COVID-19. Similarly, the proposed model has been used to forecast the dates when other countries would be able to contain the spread of COVID-19. Conclusion The forecasted dates are only a prediction based on the existing situation. However, these forecasted dates can be used to guide actions and make informed decisions that will be practically beneficial in influencing the real future. The current forecasting trend shows that more stringent actions/restrictions need to be implemented for most of the countries as the forecasting model shows they will take over three months before they can possibly contain the spread of COVID-19.


Author(s):  
Ahmed Ben Said ◽  
Abdelkarim Erradi ◽  
Hussein Ahmed Aly ◽  
Abdelmonem Mohamed

AbstractTo assist policymakers in making adequate decisions to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate forecasting of the disease propagation is of paramount importance. This paper presents a deep learning approach to forecast the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases using bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) network applied to multivariate time series. Unlike other forecasting techniques, our proposed approach first groups the countries having similar demographic and socioeconomic aspects and health sector indicators using K-means clustering algorithm. The cumulative case data of the clustered countries enriched with data related to the lockdown measures are fed to the bidirectional LSTM to train the forecasting model. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach by studying the disease outbreak in Qatar and the proposed model prediction from December 1st until December 31st, 2020. The quantitative evaluation shows that the proposed technique outperforms state-of-art forecasting approaches.


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