With the progressing of ICT, more and more activities in the real world have been projected on the Internet. As the logs of real world, UGC (User Generated Contents) generated by such projection become more and more useful and important to improve our experiences. By applying the fundamental technologies of Web mining, information retrieval and multimedia information systems, our research group studies on the interactions between real and cyber worlds and develop user centric information systems of the users, for the users, by the users and with the users.
T1: Sightseeing Informatics (Geographical Information Systems)
Discover and promote various POIs from UGC(user generated contents) to satisfy diverse tour needs.
Keywords: LBS (Location Based Service), GIS (Geographical Information Systems), Temporal-spatio Information Mining, POI Mining.

Obscure Spots Discovery System Anaba
T2: Investment Informatics
Apply information technologies to support decisions on investments (stock, trust, and FX, etc.).
Keywords: Causality Mining, Expert Ranking, Interests Relationship Mining, Social Trading, Understanding Support.

Expert Traders Discovery System W2F
T3: Informational Nutrition
Introduce the notion of "nutrition" to informatics, and study on how to provide users information in balanced and delicious ways.
Keywords: Information Complementation, Entity Mining, Relation Mining, Multimedia Contents Analysis

Diversity-Oriented News App: NewsSalad
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