2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: storing, in a further memory storage device, said created entity-type pairs, each entity-pair structure representing said one or more entities and associated type, wherein said determining whether said candidate answer is associated with an entity in said entity-type pairs comprises: accessing said stored entity-type pairs to identify a type from an entity-type pair.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: storing, in a further memory storage device, said created entity-type pairs, each entity-pair structure representing said one or more entities and associated type, wherein said determining whether said candidate answer is associated with an entity in said entity-type pairs comprises: accessing said stored entity-type pairs to identify a type from an entity-type pair. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein said corpus analyzing, said list identifying, said list parsing and said creating entity-type pairs are performed off-line as a pre-processing step.