The conventional Internet is acquiring a geo-spatial dimension. Web documents are being
geo-tagged, and geo-referenced objects such as points of interest are being associated with …

Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of
keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a set of …

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tent. Locations are automatically learned based on dividing documents into document …

KNWLedge MINING 102 travelogues with learned tags and images, performing topic
learning to obtain an interest model, performing location matching based on the interest …

Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an
intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search …

The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and
that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently in …

The conventional Internet is acquiring a geospatial dimension. Web documents are being
geo-tagged and geo-referenced objects such as points of interest are being associated with …

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 …

Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often
return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms …

Most online activities are associated with geographical locations. For example, people write
personal blogs about interesting places they have ever been to; read news about important …