Title
Spatial keyword queries
Abstract
Spatial-textual content is becoming increasingly prevalent: — Location-based services from major commercial search engines. For example, in Google Maps many (geo-referenced) points of interest--e.g., clinics, stores, tourist attractions, hotels, entertainment services, public transport, and public services--are being associated with descriptive texts. — Websites with location content. For example, online yellow pages, documents of Wikipedia, Tweets in Twitter, photos in Flickr, points of interest in Foursquare, etc. — Moving objects associated with texts. An example scenario is that each healthcare worker has certain skills, described in keywords, and moves around in a large hospital. These call for spatial-keyword search from the perspectives of both the users and the service providers. From the user's perspective, users may want to issue queries such as "health screening clinics near NTU, Singapore", which has a location component "NTU, Singapore" and a keyword component "health screening clinics". Indeed, location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and Twitter already support such types of queries. From the perspective of service providers, they want to know the number of customers who are interested in their services compared with competitors. For example, a nutrition store may want to find potential customers whose profiles are relevant to the products of the store and whose locations are close to this store. The talk covers recent results [1---6] on spatial keyword querying obtained by the speaker and his colleagues.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-29023-7_25
DASFAA Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile user,keyword component,web data management,spatial keyword querying,service provider,spatial keyword,user-supplied keyword,web content,location component,spatial-textual content,example scenario,entertainment service,returns web object,location-based service,google maps,spatial keyword query,different kind,geo-position mobile user,recent result,nutrition store,health screening clinic
Data mining,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science,Range query (data structures),Voronoi diagram,Data management,Web content,Database
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.73
23
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
xin cao183741.10
lisi chen245225.06
gao cong34086169.93
Christian S. Jensen4106511129.45
qiang qu58312.15
anders skovsgaard6864.36
dingming wu769623.46
man lung yiu82436109.78