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Spatial database queries are often exploratory. The users often find that their queries return too many answers and many of them may be irrelevant. Based on the coupling relationships between spatial objects, this paper proposes a novel categorization approach which consists of two steps. The first step analyzes the spatial object coupling relationship by considering the location proximity and semantic...