@conference {713,
	title = {TripMentor Project: scope and challenges},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Cultural Informatics, co-located with the 14th International Workshop On Semantic And Social Media Adaptation And Personalization (SMAP 2019)},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {We present Tripmentor, a novel project, that is related to tourism in the region of Attica. The project has as main scope to provide rich media content to tourists through a web and mobile environment in two languages trying to guide them through alternative routes that include places of interest as well as organizations with offers to tourists. The project interconnects people with places and events in an automated manner trying to personalize on each tourist{\textquoteright}s personality. The challenges of the project are mainly technological as through the processes of the project a) automated information about venues must be collected, b) information about events related to venues must be fetched and finally c) data related to system users and mainly their profile should be discovered and created in order to offer a unique experience to each of them. We present the scope of the project as well as the challenges of its implementation.},
	keywords = {cultural related information, geodata, personalization, social media, tourism, tripmentor},
	url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2412/paper6.pdf},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Manolis Wallace and Angeliki Antoniou and George Lepouras},
	editor = {Angeliki Antoniou and Manolis Wallace}
}
@conference {poulopoulos2018a,
	title = {The Effect of Social Media Trending Topics Related to Cultural Venues{\textquoteright} Content},
	booktitle = {2018 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)},
	year = {2018},
	month = {sep},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Social media have gained the majority of attention on the Internet having an extreme number of daily visitors worldwide. The amount of information exchanged is vast, while users have become equally producers and consumers of data. Words like {\textquotedblleft}trending{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}influencers{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}likes{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}viral{\textquotedblright} are in the daily agenda of data analyzers, as they are associated with factors that play an important role in the influence of social media content to its audience. These aspects are nowadays strongly taken into account by organizations that want to draw the public{\textquoteright}s attention to the content they deliver, and in this context cultural institutions have already started to take under great consideration not only their presence in social media, but also the exploitation of social media dynamics. In this paper we propose a method that can enable cultural venues to benefit from matches between their own content and ongoing discussions on social media. More specifically we extract trending topics that can be related semantically with the content of a cultural institute and examine how a venue can benefit by exploiting these matches. The proposed algorithm has been developed in the scope of the {\textquotedblleft}CrossCult{\textquotedblright} H2020 project, and has been experimentally tested by analyzing the case of Twitter in Greek language.},
	keywords = {cultural informatics, cultural venues, personalization, social media, trending topics},
	doi = {10.1109/SMAP.2018.8501878},
	author = {Vassilis Poulopoulos and Costas Vassilakis and Manolis Wallace and Angela Antoniou and Giorgos Lepouras}
}
@conference {vacilosEuromed18,
	title = {Personality Analysis of Social Media Influencers as a Tool for Cultural Institutions},
	booktitle = {Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {236{\textendash}247},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	abstract = {Nowadays, more and more cultural venues tend to utilize social media as a main tool for marketing, spreading their messages, engaging public and raising public awareness towards culture. It comes to a point where the massive of content in social media makes it a tedious procedure to contact the appropriate audience, the people that would really be stimulated by cultural information. In this notion, we assume that establishing conversations of high impact can possibly guide the cultural venues to audiences that can benefit more. These conversations usually include the so called influencers, users whose opinion can affect many people on social media; the latter usually referred to as followers. In this research paper we examine the characteristics of the influencers that can affect the procedures of a cultural venue on social media. The research is done within the scope of "CrossCult" EU funded project.},
	keywords = {cultural informatics, influencers, personality traits, social media, user modeling},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_20},
	author = {Vassilis Poulopoulos and Costas Vassilakis and Angela Antoniou and Giorgos Lepouras and Manolis Wallace}
}
