Research on Efficient Spatial Keyword Queries Supporting Wildcard

Abstract

With the popularity of location-based services, Web contents are being geo-tagged and spatial keyword queries that retrieve objects satisfying both spatial and keyword conditions are gaining in prevalence. The existing spatial keyword queries focus on exact match or prefix match of the keywords cannot satisfy the demand of wildcard based imprecise match in many realistic scenes. Aiming to solve this problem, two methods which are fit for different situation are put forward: the inverted file and R-tree integrated index which fits for the situation that requires high time efficiency and the Prefix Bloom Filter and R-tree integrated index which fits for the situation requiring high space efficiency. The effectiveness of the two indexes is valid through experiments.