Location Aware Question Answering Based Product Searching in Mobile Handheld Devices

In this research we present a question answering based searching technique for location based shopping. A user may ask a question to the system as they naturally ask to a human while the system retrieves the search results by analyzing the given question and the current GPS location. Based on the retrieved results, the system carry out conversation with the user to explicitly understand his/her needs and accordingly filters search results for display. The conversation between the system and the user is based on word co-occurrence keyword extraction and Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) technique. As per initial experimentation, we found out that the proposed approach of conversation based shopping is appealing and useful to the user.