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Top-k spatial keyword queries on road networks

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Top-k spatial keyword queries on road networks
With the popularization of GPS-enabled devices there is an increasing interest for location-based queries. In this context, one interesting problem is processing top-k spatial keyword queries. Given a set of objects with a textual description (e.g., menu of a restaurant), a query location (latitude and longitude), and a set of query keywords, a top-k spatial keyword query returns the k best objects ranked in terms of both distance to the query location and textual relevance to the query keywords. So far, the research on this problem has assumed Euclidean space. In order to process such queries efficiently, spatio-textual indexes combining R-trees and inverted files are employed. However, for most real applications, the distance between the objects and query location is constrained by a road network (shortest path) and cannot be computed efficiently using R-trees. In this paper, we address, for the first time, the challenging problem of processing top-k spatial keyword queries on r...
João B. Rocha-Junior, Kjetil Nørv&ar
Added 29 Sep 2012
Updated 29 Sep 2012
Type Journal
Year 2012
Where EDBT
Authors João B. Rocha-Junior, Kjetil Nørvåg
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