61701 20210526094556.0 doi 10.2298/CSIS150410029G sideral 99163 ART-2017-99163 eng Garrido, P. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1750-7225 Smart tourist information points by combining agents, semantics and AI techniques 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The tourism sector in the province of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) is increasing rapidly. Although the number of domestic and foreign tourists is continuously growing, there are some tourist attractions spread over a wide geographical area, which are only visited by a few people at specific times of the year. Additionally, having human tourist guides everywhere and speaking different languages is unfeasible. An integrated solution based on smart and interactive Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) tourist guides combined with ontologies would overcome this problem. This paper presents a smart tourist information points approach which gathers tourism information about Teruel, structured according to a novel lightweight ontology built on OWL (Ontology Web Language), known as TITERIA (Touristic Information of TEruel for Intelligent Agents). Our proposal, which combines TITERIA with the Maxine platform, is capable of responding appropriately to the users thanks to its Artificial Intelligence Modeling Language (AIML) database and the AI techniques added to Maxine. Preliminary results indicate that our prototype is able to inform users about interesting topics, as well as to propose other related information, allowing them to acquire a complete information about any issue. Furthermore, users can directly talk with an artificial actor making communication much more natural and closer. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DPT/UZ/Proyecto MedStrategy info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TEC2014-52690-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.613 2017 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 93 / 104 = 0.894 2017 Q4 T3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS 136 / 148 = 0.919 2017 Q4 T3 0.229 2017 Computer Science (miscellaneous) 2017 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Barrachina, J. Martinez, F.J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6945-7330 Seron, F.J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1683-4694 5007 035 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Arquit.Tecnología Comput. 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. 14, 1 (2017), 1-23 COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1820-0214 237917 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61701/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 8427 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61701/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61701 articulos driver 2021-05-26-09:31:10 ARTICLE