15. The system according to claim 14 , said automated QA system further comprising a corpus of data, said candidate answer generator automatically computing a candidate answer to said question using said corpus of data.
15. The system according to claim 14 , said automated QA system further comprising a corpus of data, said candidate answer generator automatically computing a candidate answer to said question using said corpus of data. 16. The system according to claim 15 , further comprising: said processor automatically matching said candidate answer against instances in said corpus of data; said processor automatically retrieving preliminary types from said corpus of data, said preliminary types being associated with said instances; said processor automatically matching said question LAT with said preliminary types retrieved from said corpus of data; and said processor automatically producing scores representing a degree of match between said question LAT and said preliminary types for said candidate answer.