Fast similarity search on keyword-induced point groups

Zhe Li, Yu Li, Man Lung Yiu

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Abstract

Location-based social media (e.g., Twitter, Foursquare) have been generating massive amount of geo-textual data. In this paper, we represent the spatial distribution of a keyword by the group of locations tagged with such keyword. Given a query keyword, our problem is to find k keywords with the most similar distribution of locations. Such query finds applications in targeted marketing and recommendation. The performance of existing solutions degrade when different point groups have significant overlapping, which happens rather frequently in real data. We propose efficient techniques to process similarity search on point groups. Experimental results on Twitter data demonstrate that our solution is faster than the state-of-the-art by up to 6 times.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2018
EditorsLi Xiong, Roberto Tamassia, Kashani Farnoush Banaei, Ralf Hartmut Guting, Erik Hoel
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages109-118
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450358897
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2018
Event26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2018 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 6 Nov 20189 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Conference

Conference26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period6/11/189/11/18

Keywords

  • Hausdorff distance
  • Similarity Searching
  • Spatio-Textual Searching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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