2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said computing a first score for said query LAT associated with said input query comprises: extracting a set of features describing said determined query LAT; and, applying a model to the feature set to produce a LAT confidence value representing an estimated accuracy of the determined query LAT, said first score comprising said confidence value.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein said computing a second score representing a degree of match between said compared query LAT with said candidate answer AT includes: matching said candidate answer against instances in a corpus or a knowledge base; retrieving a type associated with an instance in the corpus or the knowledge base; and, matching said query LAT with said retrieved type to produce a type coercion (TyCor) value, said second score comprising said TyCor value.