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: h7fd6ed36fc38bf1e
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.2396658e-05
Overall Rank: 9,000 | 39.51%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2912572

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Authors

1. Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cong_sigmod16,
        title = {{Querying Geo-Textual Data: Spatial Keyword Queries and Beyond}},
        author = {Cong, Gao and Jensen, Christian S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2912572},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2912572},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,758	TASK: An Efficient Framework for Instant Error-tolerant Spatial Keyword Queries on Road Networks	2023	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,283	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-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
1,232	Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web Search Engines	2006	SIGMOD	0.00011406666
1,477	Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries	2011	VLDB	0.00010546245
1,858	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	9.4893333e-05
2,945	Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins	2013	VLDB	7.8244366e-05
3,046	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	7.7164954e-05
3,089	A Scalable Algorithm for Maximizing Range Sum in Spatial Databases	2012	VLDB	7.6593048e-05
3,203	Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows	2014	SIGMOD	7.5392994e-05
3,528	Collective Spatial Keyword Queries: A Distance Owner-Driven Approach	2013	SIGMOD	7.2269229e-05
3,733	An Efficient Query Indexing Mechanism for Filtering Geo-Textual Data	2013	SIGMOD	7.0642869e-05
3,783	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	7.0215819e-05
3,867	Keyword-aware Optimal Route Search	2012	VLDB	6.9573342e-05
4,576	Collective Spatial Keyword Querying	2011	SIGMOD	6.5228866e-05
4,799	Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Search	2011	SIGMOD	6.4084993e-05
4,814	Efficient Algorithms for Answering the m-Closest Keywords Query	2015	SIGMOD	6.3995011e-05
5,115	SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search	2012	VLDB	6.2654746e-05
6,834	Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries	2016	VLDB	5.6664572e-05
7,191	Location-Aware Pub/Sub System: When Continuous Moving Queries Meet Dynamic Event Streams	2015	SIGMOD	5.5880344e-05
7,333	Retrieving Regions of Interest for User Exploration	2014	VLDB	5.5476074e-05
7,567	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	5.4933119e-05
7,747	Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration	2016	SIGMOD	5.4588605e-05
12,336	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,562	GroupFinder: A New Approach to Top-K Point-of-Interest Group Retrieval	2013	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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