Location aware keyword query suggestion based on document proximity

Consider a user who has issued a keyword query to a search engine. We study the effective suggestion of alternative keyword queries to the user, which are semantically relevant to the original query and they have as results documents that correspond to objects near the user’s location. For this purpose, we propose a weighted keyword-document graph which captures semantic and proximity relevance between queries and documents. Then, we use the graph to suggest queries that are near in terms of graph distance to the original queries. To make our framework scalable, we propose a partition-based approach that greatly outperforms the baseline algorithm.