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Planning individual journeys through travelguide with Natural Language Processing (NLP) text analysing techniques is looking research and developement cooperation agreement

Summary

Profile Type
  • Technology request
POD Reference
TRDE20231030018
Term of Validity
20 November 2023 - 19 November 2025
Company's Country
  • Germany
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement
Targeted Countries
  • All countries
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General information

Short Summary
A SME from the south of Germany is active in the field of publishing travel guides. For a web supported individual planning of round trips, they are looking for partners in the field of Natural language processing (NLP) or web scraping online. For this purpose, their travel guide content is made available.
Full Description
A Bavarian SME creates and publishes (digital) travel guides. More than 100 freelance authors regularly travel mainly to the European regions described in the travel guides and can thus depict an objective picture of each region. The publisher digitalized the content of their travel guides and has a good database for planning individual journeys.

This diverse editorial content serves as basis for a new solution, which requires abstracting the data with the help of NLP. A solution is sought to analyze and process the available texts, which are already semantically tagged and geo-located and to supplement and update them with the help of web scraping.

This approach should also make it possible to filter out changes, for example the opening hours or admission prices.

They aim to provide all customized information and the best travel routes in one product. This can enable users to, for example, display a travel route with suggested stopovers and points worth seeing depending on the route of interest and according to the interest profile of the user.

They are looking for partnerships in the form of a research cooperation agreement.
Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
The partner should have knowledge of text analysis using NLP. The existing guide content should be merged with updated information from the web using NLP and web scraping. The goal is to provide the customer with all customized information in one place.
Stage of Development
  • Under development
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
The SME is looking for partners with one or more of the following expertises:

- Developers/Integrators of relevant Artificial Intelligence models, particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Developers of Business Intelligence Solutions willing to integrate the SME's insights in their platform

- Analysts with focus on Open Source Intelligence (e.g. Law Enforcement)

- Technology Transfer to apply it in additional industries

- Providers of computing resources (Specially Graphics processing units, GPU).


The type of partnership considered is either a license agreement with the purpose to integrate the mentioned platform in customers workflows in order to improve their activities or those of their clients

Furthermore a research cooperation agreement is envisaged. This research cooperation should lead towards an application to funding opportunities to keep developing and marketing the platform.
Type and Size of Partner
  • SME <=10
  • R&D Institution
  • Other
  • University
  • Big company
  • SME 11-49
  • SME 50 - 249
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement

Dissemination

Technology keywords
  • 01003022 - Smart Appliances
  • 11003 - Information and media, society
  • 01004002 - Applications for Tourism
  • 01005005 - Information Filtering, Semantics, Statistics
Market keywords
  • 09003006 - Media related services
  • 09004005 - Books, cards and other publishing
Targeted countries
  • All countries