PhD defense of Mayeul Matthias – 22 January 2021
On January 22, 2021, Mayeul Matthias will defend his thesis entitled “Recommendation of Personalized Cultural Paths – An Interdisciplinary Study of Automated Visit Proposals.” This thesis is supervised by Juan-Manuel Torres and Didier Josselin, and co-supervised by Fen Zhou. The jury consists of: Abstract: This thesis focuses on recommending cultural visits through an interdisciplinary approach. These works combine techniques from Operations Research and natural language processing while drawing on concepts from audience sociology and geography. We propose new methods for evaluating cultural points of interest and automatically creating tourist routes that take into account the desires expressed by a visitor. These principles are applied on two different scales and contexts: museum visits and cultural paths within a city. In the first part, we concentrate on visits to art museums based on the preferences expressed by the visitor and the prestige of the artworks. This dual approach allows classifying the works both according to the cultural affinities of the visitor and their importance within the museum. The latter is calculated by applying automatic text summarization algorithms to the museum’s official descriptions of the works, providing a visit profile reflecting the discovery of a museum through its masterpieces. This profile can then Plus d'infos
