QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM USING MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION SOURCES

A method of question answering from multilingual information sources is disclosed. The present invention discloses a method, a computer system and a program product for selecting an information source language of an information source, the method includes: receiving a question; analyzing the question to obtain a category information of a word included in the question; obtaining a word included in the category information as estimated topic or region related to the question; determining a candidate for an information source language using the estimated topic or region; and selecting the information source language and corresponding information sources for retrieving documents to generate an answer of the question.