12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein said matching the candidate answer to a first instance in the ontology further comprises: accessing said resource having ontological content; identifying a context in said input query; computing a similarity measure between the identified context of said input query and contextual data associated with the obtained types from the ontological content.
12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein said matching the candidate answer to a first instance in the ontology further comprises: accessing said resource having ontological content; identifying a context in said input query; computing a similarity measure between the identified context of said input query and contextual data associated with the obtained types from the ontological content. 13. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising: computing a confidence score based on a weighted or un-weighted combination of said ranked list of first instances and said computed similarity measure.