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Semi-structured query systems for document-oriented databases have many real applications. One particular application that we are interested in is matching each financial receipt image with its corresponding place of interest (POI, e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Geewook Kim , Wonseok Hwang , Minjoon Seo , Seunghyun Park

As a fundamental component in location-based services, inferring the relationship between points-of-interests (POIs) is very critical for service providers to offer good user experience to business owners and customers. Most of the existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yile Chen , Xiucheng Li , Gao Cong , Cheng Long , Zhifeng Bao , Shang Liu , Wanli Gu , Fuzheng Zhang

Knowledge discovery from GPS trajectory data is an important topic in several scientific areas, including data mining, human behavior analysis, and user modeling. This paper proposes a task that assigns personalized visited-POIs. Its goal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jun Suzuki , Yoshihiko Suhara , Hiroyuki Toda , Kyosuke Nishida

With the rapid growth of Location-Based Social Networks, personalized Points of Interest (POIs) recommendation has become a critical task to help users explore their surroundings. Due to the scarcity of check-in data, the availability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Sajad Ahmadian , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

Point-of-Interest (POI) retrieval aims to identify relevant candidates from massive-scale POI databases, serving as a cornerstone for diverse location-based services. However, in general map search scenarios, conventional POI retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dong Chen , Shuai Zheng , Haoyang Shao , Hongsheng Wu , Muhao Xu , Yeyu Yan , Ruifang Li , Zhenfeng Zhu

Recent urbanization has coincided with the enrichment of geotagged data, such as street view and point-of-interest (POI). Region embedding enhanced by the richer data modalities has enabled researchers and city administrators to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Tianyuan Huang , Zhecheng Wang , Hao Sheng , Andrew Y. Ng , Ram Rajagopal

People often refer to a place of interest (POI) by an alias. In e-commerce scenarios, the POI alias problem affects the quality of the delivery address of online orders, bringing substantial challenges to intelligent logistics systems and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tianfu He , Guochun Chen , Chuishi Meng , Huajun He , Zheyi Pan , Yexin Li , Sijie Ruan , Huimin Ren , Ye Yuan , Ruiyuan Li , Junbo Zhang , Jie Bao , Hui He , Yu Zheng

Understanding intrinsic patterns and predicting spatiotemporal characteristics of cities require a comprehensive representation of urban neighborhoods. Existing works relied on either inter- or intra-region connectivities to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Zhecheng Wang , Haoyuan Li , Ram Rajagopal

The widespread adoption of smartphones and Location-Based Social Networks has led to a massive influx of spatio-temporal data, creating unparalleled opportunities for enhancing Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems. These advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qianru Zhang , Peng Yang , Junliang Yu , Haixin Wang , Xingwei He , Siu-Ming Yiu , Hongzhi Yin

POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiangnan Xia , Yu Yang , Senzhang Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu

Points of interest (POI) recommendation has been drawn much attention recently due to the increasing popularity of location-based networks, e.g., Foursquare and Yelp. Among the existing approaches to POI recommendation, Matrix Factorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Chaochao Chen , Ziqi Liu , Peilin Zhao , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

Spatial representations that capture both structural and semantic characteristics of urban environments are essential for urban modeling. Traditional spatial embeddings often prioritize spatial proximity while underutilizing fine-grained…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junyuan Liu , Xinglei Wang , Tao Cheng

This paper presents a mobile crowdsensing approach to identify the indoor points of interest (POI) by exploiting Wi-Fi similarity measurements. Since indoor environments are lacking the GPS positioning accuracy when compared to outdoors, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Ran Liu , Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath , Chau Yuen

Recommender systems in location based social networks mainly take advantage of social and geographical influence in making personalized Points-of-interest (POI) recommendations. The social influence is obtained from social network friends…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Billy Zimba , Samson Chibuta , David Chisanga , Fredah Banda , Jackson Phiri

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is an important task in location-based social networks. It facilitates the relation modeling between users and locations. Recently, researchers recommend POIs by long- and short-term interests and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Qiang Cui , Chenrui Zhang , Yafeng Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai

Existing spatial object recommendation algorithms generally treat objects identically when ranking them. However, spatial objects often cover different levels of spatial granularity and thereby are heterogeneous. For example, one user may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hui Luo , Jingbo Zhou , Zhifeng Bao , Shuangli Li , J. Shane Culpepper , Haochao Ying , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

Point-of-interest (POI) type prediction is the task of inferring the type of a place from where a social media post was shared. Inferring a POI's type is useful for studies in computational social science including sociolinguistics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Danae Sánchez Villegas , Nikolaos Aletras

Predicting unobserved entries of a partially observed matrix has found wide applicability in several areas, such as recommender systems, computational biology, and computer vision. Many scalable methods with rigorous theoretical guarantees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Vatsal Shah , Nikhil Rao , Weicong Ding

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to offer suggestions on which POI to visit next, given a user's POI visit history. This problem has a wide application in the tourism industry, and it is gaining an increasing interest as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Qianyu Guo , Jianzhong Qi

Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of Location-based Social Network (LBSN) services, which provides unparalleled opportunities to build personalized Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems. Existing POI recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yanchi Liu , Hengshu Zhu , Pengpeng Zhao , Chang Tan , Qing He