Recommendation System task

Recommendation System task

This subtask is a classification task where the participating system can predict the degree of satisfaction that a tourist will have when recommending a destination.

Instances description

Each instance consists of two parts:

  • User information: Gender (Male or female) and place of origin. It was taken into account the state of origin if the tourist is Mexican, if not, they will have the 'foreign' label. The description that the same user put on TripAdvisor (Some users do not share a description) and opinions that he has put of other places (not necessarily Mexican) on TripAdvisor.

  • Place information: A brief text description of the place and a series of representative characteristics of the place as a type of tourism that can be done there (adventure, beach, relaxation, etc.), If it is a family atmosphere, if it is private or public, it is free or paid, among others.


The collection was extracted by a tourists who traveled to the most representative places of Nayarit, Mexico. This collection was obtained from the tourists who shared their satisfaction on TripAdvisor between 2010 and 2020. Each class of satisfaction is an integer between [1, 5], where 1 represents the most negative satisfaction and 5 the most positive.

Example

  • Tourist

    • Gender: Male

    • Place of residence: Jalisco

    • Self-description: 'Me gusta Tomar fotografías por los lugares a donde viajo'

    • All user reviews that the tourist has previously issued*

  • Place

    • Name: El muelle de San Blas

    • Description: Se encuentra justo al final de la autopista Tepic. Sobre a las calmadas aguas de la Bahía de Matanchén, se encuentra este muelle de más de 200 metros de longitud. Cuenta con distintas bancas semi-techadas para disfrutar de la brisa del mar e iluminación nocturna. En su extremo marítimo, se encuentra la estatua de “La Loca de San Blas”, un tributo a Rebeca Méndez Jiménez cuya historia se hizo famosa por la canción del grupo Maná “En el Muelle de San Blas”, la cual menciona al muelle en la cabecera municipal y no éste nuevo.

    • Some characteristics: Public, beach, familiar.

  • Satisfaction degree: 5 (Most positive)

The collection consists of 2,263 instances with 2,033 tourists and 18 famous Mexican places.

For the space, the opinions that the user has made from other places are omitted