19. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the document processing system is a question and answer system and wherein the electronic document is part of a corpus of documents ingested by the question and answer system, and wherein the computer readable program further causes the data processing system to perform a question answering operation on an input question using the section metadata associated with the electronic document, wherein the section metadata is used by the question and answer system to modify a score associated with a candidate answer obtained from the electronic document.
11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive, an electronic document for processing; analyze the electronic document to identify concepts present within textual content of the electronic document; correlate concepts within the textual content with one another to identify concept groups within the textual content based on the application of one or more rules defining related concepts or concept patterns; determine at least one section of text within the textual content based on the correlation of concepts within the textual content; generate, based on results of the determining, section metadata for the electronic document to thereby identify the at least one section in the electronic document; and store the section metadata in association with the electronic document for use by a document processing system.