5. A computerized device comprising: a processor; and a user interface operatively connected to said processor, said user interface receiving a question comprising question terms into, said processor automatically searching sources of data containing passages using a processor of said computerized device to produce candidate answers to said question, said searching being based on said question terms, and said searching identifying sources of evidence that support each of said candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether said candidate answers are correct answers to said question, said sources of evidence comprising passages, said processor automatically creating a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature of said scoring features, each said scoring feature-specific matrix specifying all different combinations of said passages, said candidate answers, and said question terms and comprising score fields for score values each specific question term with respect to a specific passage and a specific candidate answer, each score field containing a score value indicating how a passage term of said specific passage aligns with said specific question term to support said specific candidate answer as being a correct answer to said question, and multiple ones of said different combinations of said passages, said candidate answers and said question terms forming vectors, said processor automatically combining said vectors to produce a collapsed score for each of said question terms, said processor automatically combining collapsed scores to produce a combined score for each of said candidate answers, and said processor automatically ranking said candidate answers based on said combined score.
5. A computerized device comprising: a processor; and a user interface operatively connected to said processor, said user interface receiving a question comprising question terms into, said processor automatically searching sources of data containing passages using a processor of said computerized device to produce candidate answers to said question, said searching being based on said question terms, and said searching identifying sources of evidence that support each of said candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether said candidate answers are correct answers to said question, said sources of evidence comprising passages, said processor automatically creating a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature of said scoring features, each said scoring feature-specific matrix specifying all different combinations of said passages, said candidate answers, and said question terms and comprising score fields for score values each specific question term with respect to a specific passage and a specific candidate answer, each score field containing a score value indicating how a passage term of said specific passage aligns with said specific question term to support said specific candidate answer as being a correct answer to said question, and multiple ones of said different combinations of said passages, said candidate answers and said question terms forming vectors, said processor automatically combining said vectors to produce a collapsed score for each of said question terms, said processor automatically combining collapsed scores to produce a combined score for each of said candidate answers, and said processor automatically ranking said candidate answers based on said combined score. 6. The computerized device according to claim 5 , each of said-scoring features defining a different type of analysis for determining whether each of said candidate answers is correct.