27. The program storage device as claimed in claim 23 , wherein said scoring said candidate answers using said supporting passages includes implementing parallel scoring modules for automatically conducting, in parallel, one or more analyses, each producing said candidate score.
27. The program storage device as claimed in claim 23 , wherein said scoring said candidate answers using said supporting passages includes implementing parallel scoring modules for automatically conducting, in parallel, one or more analyses, each producing said candidate score. 28. The program storage device as claimed in claim 27 , wherein one candidate score comprises a term match score obtained by implementing executable instructions for counting the number of terms in said supporting passage and determining if said number matches a number of terms in a candidate answer.