Context-Aware Restricted Geographical Domain Question Answering System

Abstract

With the rapid use of the internet into users' daily lives, it is imperative to capture location-specific information from local database to satisfy the user's local information needs [context]. This is especially true in the increasingly local search environments. There are a number of local Web search engines enabling users to find information which is location specific Web content. In this aspect web search engine gives sets of relevant documents related to user query. Thereby user has to scan all searched documents and read line by line to get specific answer. So there is great need to automate the overall process, so that user gets answer in the form of compact text along with map for visualization purpose. This aims at developing geographic domain question answering system [QAS] embedded with mapping abilities where our system will allow users to specify a location addition to the keywords they are searching for as a query. Our system will then return results of the specified location so as to make geographical information retrieval truly context-aware. The testing results show satisfactory performance of the system.