System and method for scoring the geographic relevance of answers in a deep question answering system based on geographic context of a candidate answer

摘要

A method, system and a computer program product are provided for scoring candidate answers for geographic relevance by identifying document location information that is associated with a document, associating each token in the document with the document location information, and then comparing geographic foci identified for a candidate answer from the tokens with geographic foci identified for an input question to generate a geographic relevance score for the candidate answer to the input question.