Automatic linguistic reporting of customer activity patterns in open malls

Autor: Miguel Ángel García-Garrido, David Chapela-Campa, Pedro Álvarez, Manuel Ocaña, Noelia Hernández, Alberto Bugarín, P. Revenga, Ángel Llamazares, Manuel Mucientes, Manuel Lama, Jose M. Alonso, Javier Fabra
Přispěvatelé: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Electrónica e Computación
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Multimedia Tools and Applications. 81:3369-3395
ISSN: 1573-7721
1380-7501
Popis: In this work, we present a complete system to produce an automatic linguistic reporting about the customer activity patterns inside open malls, a mixed distribution of classical malls joined with the shops on the street. These reports can assist to design marketing campaigns by means of identifying the best places to catch the attention of customers. Activity patterns are estimated with process mining techniques and the key information of localization. Localization is obtained with a parallelized solution based on WiFi fingerprint system to speed up the solution. In agreement with the best practices for human evaluation of natural language generation systems, the linguistic quality of the generated report was evaluated by 41 experts who filled in an online questionnaire. Results are encouraging, since the average global score of the linguistic quality dimension is 6.17 (0.76 of standard deviation) in a 7- point Likert scale. This expresses a high degree of satisfaction of the generated reports and validates the adequacy of automatic natural language textual reports as a complementary tool to process model visualization This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science Innovation and Universities and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER) Grants RTI2018-099646-BI00, TIN2017-84796-C2-1-R, TIN2017-90773-REDT, RED2018-102641-T and RYC-2016-19802 (Ramón y Cajal program, José M. Alonso). Also by the Galician Ministry of Education, University and Professional Training and the ERDF/FEDER program (ED431F2018/02, ED431C2018/29, ED431G2019/04 grants) SI
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