title: Trust-based recommendations for mobile tourists in TIP

authors: Quan, Qiu

subjects: computer science

abstract: Recommender systems aim to suggest to users items they would like. However, concerns about the reliability of information from unknown recommenders influences user acceptance. In this paper, we analyse trust-based recommendations for the tourist information system TIP. We believe that the recommender strategy is closely related to the information domain applied. So, the delivered trust-based tourist recommendations have combined peers’ ratings on sights, trust computations and geographical constraints. We create two trust propagation models to spread trust in the TIP community. Three Trust based and location-aware filtering algorithms are implemented. According to research on feasibilities of trust in recommendation fields, three collaborative filtering algorithms in TIP are improved by introducing the trust concept.

text: Trust-based recommendations for mobile tourists in TIP Recommender systems aim to suggest to users items they would like. However, concerns about the reliability of information from unknown recommenders influences user acceptance. In this paper, we analyse trust-based recommendations for the tourist information system TIP. We believe that the recommender strategy is closely related to the information domain applied. So, the delivered trust-based tourist recommendations have combined peers’ ratings on sights, trust computations and geographical constraints. We create two trust propagation models to spread trust in the TIP community. Three Trust based and location-aware filtering algorithms are implemented. According to research on feasibilities of trust in recommendation fields, three collaborative filtering algorithms in TIP are improved by introducing the trust concept.

year: 2008

title: The relationship between speaker's reference and semantic reference

authors: Lumsden, David

subjects: speaker's reference

abstract: The distinction between speaker's and semantic reference arose in connection with Donnellan's distinction between the referential use and the attributive use of definite descriptions. The central issue concerning the referential/attributive distinction is whether it is semantic or pragmatic. Kripke favours the pragmatic interpretation and developed the terminology of speaker's and semantic reference in his explanation. The notion of speaker's reference can apply also to uses of proper names, demonstratives, indefinite descriptions and quantifier expressions. The main danger for the speaker's reference/semantic reference distinction lies in controversy over the semantics/pragmatics interface. Both Relevance Theory and neo-Gricean theory acknowledge the phenomenon of pragmatic intrusion into semantics. If the pragmatic intrusion involves objective context rather than speaker's intentions this may permit a distinction between speaker's and semantic reference.

text: The relationship between speaker's reference and semantic reference The distinction between speaker's and semantic reference arose in connection with Donnellan's distinction between the referential use and the attributive use of definite descriptions. The central issue concerning the referential/attributive distinction is whether it is semantic or pragmatic. Kripke favours the pragmatic interpretation and developed the terminology of speaker's and semantic reference in his explanation. The notion of speaker's reference can apply also to uses of proper names, demonstratives, indefinite descriptions and quantifier expressions. The main danger for the speaker's reference/semantic reference distinction lies in controversy over the semantics/pragmatics interface. Both Relevance Theory and neo-Gricean theory acknowledge the phenomenon of pragmatic intrusion into semantics. If the pragmatic intrusion involves objective context rather than speaker's intentions this may permit a distinction between speaker's and semantic reference.

year: 2010

title: Arnold Manaaki Wilson: Te Awakaunua

authors: Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia

subjects: Arnold Manaaki Wilson

abstract: Arnold Manaaki Wilson was born in 1928, in Ruatoki, a community which nestles beneath the misty Taiarahia hills, following the curves of the Ohinemataroa river valley – known to others as of his tuhoe people. They know him there as Te Wakaunua, after a provocative late 19th century political visionary. From Such radical Tuhoe ideas fused with the sculptural genius of his father, a renowned carver of the art-making Ngati Tarawhai of Te Arawa, Arnold Wilson emerged.

text: Arnold Manaaki Wilson: Te Awakaunua Arnold Manaaki Wilson was born in 1928, in Ruatoki, a community which nestles beneath the misty Taiarahia hills, following the curves of the Ohinemataroa river valley – known to others as of his tuhoe people. They know him there as Te Wakaunua, after a provocative late 19th century political visionary. From Such radical Tuhoe ideas fused with the sculptural genius of his father, a renowned carver of the art-making Ngati Tarawhai of Te Arawa, Arnold Wilson emerged.

year: 2008