Spatial keyword search has been playing an indispensable role in personalized route
recommendation and geo-textual information retrieval. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

With advances in geo-positioning technologies and geo-location services, there are a
rapidly growing amount of spatio-textual objects collected in many applications such as …

The fast development of GPS equipped devices has aroused widespread use of spatial
keyword querying in location based services nowadays. Existing spatial keyword query …

With the increasing pervasiveness of the geo-positioning technologies, there is an
enormous amount of spatio-textual objects available in many applications such as location …

Geo-textual indices play an important role in spatial keyword querying. The existing geo-
textual indices have not been compared systematically under the same experimental …

Semantic-aware spatial keyword search is an important technique for digital map services.
However, existing indexing and search methods have limited pruning effect due to the high …

We examine the spatial keyword search problem to retrieve objects of interest that are
ranked based on both their spatial proximity to the query location as well as the textual …

Many real-world applications have requirements to support moving spatial keyword queries.
For example a tourist looks for top-k" seafood restaurants" while walking in a city. She will …

This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK)
query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive …

In this big data era, huge amounts of spatial documents have been generated everyday
through various location based services. Top-k spatial keyword search is an important …