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States that one of most attractive approaches to language processing on computers is the research on program systems that enable the computer to answer natural English questions. Discusses the kinds of information contained in a question that can be used to identify an answering statement. The content words, the question words and the function words of the question have all been seen to offer important cues which can be used to help identify an answer. Describes how the information-rich statements which may contain answers are found from searching a large corpus of text, and the techniques for actually using the dependency analysis to select from potential answering statements those which are most probably the answers.