Spatial keyword search has been playing an indispensable role in personalized route
recommendation and geo-textual information retrieval. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

With the broad adoption of mobile devices, notably smartphones, keyword-based search for
content has seen increasing use by mobile users, who are often interested in content related …

Microblogs data is the microlength user-generated data that is posted on the web, eg,
tweets, online reviews, comments on news and social media. It has gained considerable …

As an important type of spatial keyword query, the m-closest keywords (m CK) query finds a
group of objects such that they cover all query keywords and have the smallest diameter …

The collective spatial keyword query (CSKQ), an important variant of spatial keyword
queries, aims to find a set of the objects that collectively cover users' queried keywords, and …

With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging techniques, spatio-textual objects
that possess both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in …

Top-k nearest keyword search has been of interest because of applications ranging from
road network location search by keyword to search of information on an RDF repository. We …

Geo-textual objects with both geographical location and textual description are gaining in
prevalence. Over the past decades, substantial research has been conducted on spatial …

With the increasing pervasiveness of the geo-positioning technologies, there is an
enormous amount of spatio-textual objects available in many applications such as location …

With the proliferation of geo-textual objects on the web, extensive efforts have been devoted
to improving the efficiency of top-k spatial keyword queries in different settings. However …