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: 5216
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.437516e-05
Overall Rank: 8,822 | 38.69%
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
11,241	TASK: An Efficient Framework for Instant Error-tolerant Spatial Keyword Queries on Road Networks	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,782	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
1,262	Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web Search Engines	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012982825
1,317	Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries	2011	VLDB	0.00012615781
2,020	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	9.7766925e-05
2,148	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	9.4278918e-05
2,911	A Scalable Algorithm for Maximizing Range Sum in Spatial Databases	2012	VLDB	7.9273624e-05
3,294	Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins	2013	VLDB	7.2590482e-05
3,336	Collective Spatial Keyword Queries: A Distance Owner-Driven Approach	2013	SIGMOD	7.2009826e-05
3,441	Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows	2014	SIGMOD	7.0891447e-05
3,591	Keyword-aware Optimal Route Search	2012	VLDB	6.9362465e-05
3,722	An Efficient Query Indexing Mechanism for Filtering Geo-Textual Data	2013	SIGMOD	6.8135532e-05
3,842	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	6.7082659e-05
4,693	Collective Spatial Keyword Querying	2011	SIGMOD	5.9867895e-05
4,781	SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search	2012	VLDB	5.9245435e-05
4,880	Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Search	2011	SIGMOD	5.8526687e-05
4,936	Efficient Algorithms for Answering the m-Closest Keywords Query	2015	SIGMOD	5.8150061e-05
7,124	Location-Aware Pub/Sub System: When Continuous Moving Queries Meet Dynamic Event Streams	2015	SIGMOD	4.8193745e-05
7,277	Retrieving Regions of Interest for User Exploration	2014	VLDB	4.7724354e-05
7,374	Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration	2016	SIGMOD	4.7439891e-05
7,463	Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries	2016	VLDB	4.7187734e-05
7,644	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	4.6853638e-05
11,842	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,075	GroupFinder: A New Approach to Top-K Point-of-Interest Group Retrieval	2013	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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7,644	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	4.6853638e-05
11,175	Effectiveness Perspectives and a Deep Relevance Model for Spatial Keyword Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
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3,722	An Efficient Query Indexing Mechanism for Filtering Geo-Textual Data	2013	SIGMOD	6.8135532e-05
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4,693	Collective Spatial Keyword Querying	2011	SIGMOD	5.9867895e-05
2,020	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	9.7766925e-05
7,263	Efficient Computation of Top-k Frequent Terms over Spatio-temporal Ranges	2017	SIGMOD	4.7789103e-05
2,148	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	9.4278918e-05
11,782	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05