1. A method comprising: receiving a question into a computerized device; determining a question LAT, using said computerized device, said question LAT being a lexical answer type associated with said question; identifying a candidate answer to said question, using said computerized device; automatically determining preliminary types for said candidate answer using first components of said computerized device, said first components using different methods to produce said preliminary types, and each of said first components producing a preliminary type; automatically scoring a match between said preliminary type and said question LAT, using said computerized device, each of said first components producing a first type-score, said first type-score representing a degree of match between said preliminary type and said question LAT, said scoring being differentiated based on which of said first components produced said preliminary type; automatically evaluating each said preliminary type and each said first type-score using second components of said computerized device, each of said second components producing a second score based on a combination of said first type-score and a measure of degree that said preliminary type matches said question LAT, said second components using different methods to produce said second score; automatically calculating a final score based on said second score from each of said second components, using said computerized device; and automatically outputting said final score representing a degree of confidence that said candidate answer is a type that matches said question LAT, using said computerized device.
4. The method according to claim 1 , said first components comprising type coercion components having different resource-specific type classification methodologies to score said measure of degree that said preliminary type matches said question LAT, said scoring further comprising comparing said preliminary type to said question LAT to produce said first type-score for each said type coercion component and an automated scoring function of said computerized device.