Handling information source ingestion in a question answering system

A computer-implemented method for handling a plurality of input questions, the method comprising:

• receiving, using a computer, the plurality of input questions;
• assigning, using the computer, each question of the plurality of input questions to a first question category of a plurality of question categories;
• identifying, using the computer, a set of candidate answers to each input question of the plurality of input questions using a core information source;
• calculating, using the computer, a first set of confidence scores, the first set of confidence scores including a confidence score for each candidate answer of each set of candidate answers;
• and
• in response to determining that the first set of confidence scores fails to satisfy confidence criteria, ingesting an updated information source.