A Vietnamese Festival Preservation Application

Preservation and development of intangible cultural heritage are one of the burning problems in rich cultural countries. They are significant characteristics to express the substantial identity of a nation. At present, leading artificial intelligence (AI) into the cultural development strategy is a promising approach to introduce remarkable features to the world community, especially in tourism. However, detecting and discovering the festival knowledge at a local place in a country is not only an exciting problem for travelers but also a challenge for researchers and managers. We, therefore, propose a festival information preservation framework that applied AI techniques to seek and exploit the festival knowledge in Vietnam. We provide a Vietnamese festival lightweight ontology. We investigate and implement a practical application for identifying and mining the Vietnamese festival knowledge in Mekong Delta for the first work. Our initial approach concentrates on providing a Web application that classifies the snapshot and automatically answers questions.