This paper describes an approach to adapt an existing multilingual Open-Domain Question Answering (ODQA) system for factoid questions to a Restricted Domain, the Geographical Domain. The adaptation of this ODQA system involved the modification of some components of our system such as: Question Processing, Passage Retrieval and Answer Extraction. The new system uses external resources like GNS G...

Finding automatic ways of attaching geographical scopes to on-line resources, also called “geo-referencing” documents, is a challenging problem, getting increasing attention [1, 5, 3]. Here we present a system architecture and a process for identifying the geographical scope of Web pages, defining a scope as the region where more people than average would find that page relevant. We rely on typ...