Efficient and effective ad-hoc search using structured and unstructured geospatial information

网络搜索是信息时代的一项关键使能技术。然而，两种技术--无处不在的移动设备和用于维护社交网站的海量结构化数据存储库--正在改变用户对搜索方式和搜索内容的预期。研究界的一个关键挑战是如何整合结构化和非结构化信息，以提高搜索质量。该项目提出了位置感知搜索的分级检索的新方法。特别是，它提出了一种计划，将数据库中的空间关键字搜索和信息检索中的即席搜索两个领域的最新研究结合起来，以提高搜索结果的质量。

Web search is a key enabling technology in the information age. However two technologies, ubiquitous mobile devices and massive structured data repositories such as those used to maintain social networking sites, are changing user expectations about how and what should be searched. A key challenge in the research community is how to integrate structured and unstructured information to improve the quality of search. This project proposes new approaches to ranked retrieval for location-aware search. In particular, it presents a plan to combine state-of-the-art research from two domains: spatial keyword search in databases, and ad-hoc search in Information Retrieval to improve the quality of search results.