Determining question and answer alternatives
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The described patent pertains to a computer-implemented method for generating candidate topic-answer pairs from a user query. The system identifies candidate topics from the query, assigns a candidate answer for each, and then obtains search results to evaluate relevance scores based on occurrences of topics or answers within resource annotations. Depending on these scores, the system determines whether to respond to the query with a candidate answer and selects the most relevant one for presentation.