8. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining a weighting factor for the confidence scores based on a determined relevance of the QA system pipeline to the input question comprises calculating the weighting factor as a function of a ranking of a corpora upon which the QA system pipeline operates to answer input questions.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein adjusting the confidence scores of the one or more candidate answers associated with the QA system pipeline comprises: determining a weighting factor for the confidence scores based on determined relevance of the QA system pipeline to the input question.