Web users and content are increasingly being geopositioned, and increased focus is being
given to serving local content in response to web queries. This development calls for spatial …

Given a spatial location and a set of keywords, a top-k spatial keyword query returns the k
best spatio-textual objects ranked according to their proximity to the query location and …

Web users and content are increasingly being geo-positioned. This development gives
prominence to spatial keyword queries, which involve both the locations and textual …

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 …

Large volumes of geo-tagged text objects are available on the web. Spatial keyword top-k
queries retrieve k such objects with the best score according to a ranking function that takes …

With the proliferation of geo-textual objects on the web, extensive efforts have been devoted
to improving the efficiency of top-k spatial keyword queries in different settings. However …

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 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 …

With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging, spatial web objects that possess
both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in prevalence, and spatial …

Web objects, often associated with descriptive text documents, are increasingly being geo-
tagged. A spatial keyword top-k query retrieves the best k such objects according to a …