1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: receive an input question for generation of an answer to the input question; generate a set of candidate answers for the input question based on an analysis of a corpus of information, wherein each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers corresponds to an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer as answering the input question; determine, based on the set of candidate answers, whether clarification of the input question is required; identify, in response to a determination that clarification of the input question is required, a differentiating factor in evidence passages of at least two candidate answers in the set of candidate answers; send, by the data processing system, in response to a determination that clarification of the input question is required, a request for user input to clarify the input question, wherein the request for user input is generated based on the identified differentiating factor; receive user input from the computing device in response to the request; and select at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers as an answer for the input question based on the user input, wherein identifying a differentiating factor in evidence passages of at least two candidate answers in the set of candidate answers comprises: identifying a plurality of differentiating factors between evidence passages of the at least two candidate answers; and selecting a subset of differentiating factors from the plurality of differentiating factors based on an evaluation of which differentiating factors in the plurality of differentiating factors clarify the input question.
1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: receive an input question for generation of an answer to the input question; generate a set of candidate answers for the input question based on an analysis of a corpus of information, wherein each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers corresponds to an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer as answering the input question; determine, based on the set of candidate answers, whether clarification of the input question is required; identify, in response to a determination that clarification of the input question is required, a differentiating factor in evidence passages of at least two candidate answers in the set of candidate answers; send, by the data processing system, in response to a determination that clarification of the input question is required, a request for user input to clarify the input question, wherein the request for user input is generated based on the identified differentiating factor; receive user input from the computing device in response to the request; and select at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers as an answer for the input question based on the user input, wherein identifying a differentiating factor in evidence passages of at least two candidate answers in the set of candidate answers comprises: identifying a plurality of differentiating factors between evidence passages of the at least two candidate answers; and selecting a subset of differentiating factors from the plurality of differentiating factors based on an evaluation of which differentiating factors in the plurality of differentiating factors clarify the input question. 16. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the differentiating factor is a factor that differentiates a context of one candidate answer from another candidate answer in the at least two candidate answers.