Querying Geo-Textual Data: Spatial Keyword Queries and Beyond

Summary: A SIGMOD/VLDB tutorial surveying geo-textual queries, focusing on spatial keyword queries over streaming data and static POIs. Covers continuous queries, region-of-interest queries, and extracting topics/top-k words in regions; problems and directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5215
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.4417735e-05
Overall Rank: 8,822 | 38.63%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2912572

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Authors

1. Gao Cong
2. Christian S. Jensen

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,239	TASK: An Efficient Framework for Instant Error-tolerant Spatial Keyword Queries on Road Networks	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,774	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
648	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	0.00018666267
1,220	Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web Search Engines	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013223504
1,403	Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries	2011	VLDB	0.00012176993
2,149	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	9.4266468e-05
2,906	A Scalable Algorithm for Maximizing Range Sum in Spatial Databases	2012	VLDB	7.9350108e-05
3,441	Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows	2014	SIGMOD	7.0914601e-05
3,514	Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins	2013	VLDB	7.0226998e-05
3,588	Keyword-aware Optimal Route Search	2012	VLDB	6.9428691e-05
3,714	An Efficient Query Indexing Mechanism for Filtering Geo-Textual Data	2013	SIGMOD	6.8223298e-05
3,748	Collective Spatial Keyword Queries: A Distance Owner-Driven Approach	2013	SIGMOD	6.7912604e-05
3,805	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	6.7521192e-05
4,786	Collective Spatial Keyword Querying	2011	SIGMOD	5.9235651e-05
4,925	Efficient Algorithms for Answering the m-Closest Keywords Query	2015	SIGMOD	5.8226582e-05
4,960	Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Search	2011	SIGMOD	5.7987607e-05
5,232	SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search	2012	VLDB	5.6136151e-05
7,120	Location-Aware Pub/Sub System: When Continuous Moving Queries Meet Dynamic Event Streams	2015	SIGMOD	4.8260729e-05
7,281	Retrieving Regions of Interest for User Exploration	2014	VLDB	4.7770174e-05
7,376	Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration	2016	SIGMOD	4.7485457e-05
7,462	Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries	2016	VLDB	4.7233035e-05
7,645	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	4.6896215e-05
11,834	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,067	GroupFinder: A New Approach to Top-K Point-of-Interest Group Retrieval	2013	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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7,645	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	4.6896215e-05
11,172	Effectiveness Perspectives and a Deep Relevance Model for Spatial Keyword Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
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4,786	Collective Spatial Keyword Querying	2011	SIGMOD	5.9235651e-05
648	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	0.00018666267
7,265	Efficient Computation of Top-k Frequent Terms over Spatio-temporal Ranges	2017	SIGMOD	4.7834983e-05
2,149	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	9.4266468e-05
11,774	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05