11. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the computer readable program further causes the QA system to: retrieve one or more attributes associated with the focus from an attribute data structure, wherein identifying the metric is performed based on the retrieved one or more attributes.
11. The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein the computer readable program further causes the QA system to: retrieve one or more attributes associated with the focus from an attribute data structure, wherein identifying the metric is performed based on the retrieved one or more attributes. 12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer readable program further causes the QA system to identify the metric based on the retrieved one or more attributes at least by identifying the metric based on one or more portions of content of the corpus of information comprising the superlative term and focus, and wherein identifying the metric further comprises, for each portion of content of the one or more portions of content comprising the superlative term and focus: determining an attribute of the one or more attributes that is in close proximity to the portion of content; selecting an attribute that is closest in proximity to the portion of content; and incrementing a counter value associated with the selected attribute in response to the selection of the attribute.