10. The machine of claim 1 , the information extractor producing an evidence template comprising a plurality of text fields describing an event of interest, including text fields describing at least two of a nature of the event, a cause of the event, a mechanism producing the event, an actor associated with the event, a location of the event, a time of the event, and a magnitude of the event.
10. The machine of claim 1 , the information extractor producing an evidence template comprising a plurality of text fields describing an event of interest, including text fields describing at least two of a nature of the event, a cause of the event, a mechanism producing the event, an actor associated with the event, a location of the event, a time of the event, and a magnitude of the event. 11. The machine of claim 10 , further comprising at least one evidence classifier that classifies a given evidence template according to the associated plurality of text fields to associate the evidence template with a hypothesis.