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In this paper we describe a system that generates synthesized web pages as a travel guide through integrating a discourse planner with a document retrieval system. We then present our investigation on whether the guide generated by such a system is actually preferred by users over a more general guide.
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Paris, C., Wan, S., Wilkinson, R., Wu, M. (2001). Generating Personal Travel Guides - And Who Wants Them?. In: Bauer, M., Gmytrasiewicz, P.J., Vassileva, J. (eds) User Modeling 2001. UM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44566-8_36
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