Collection and storage of a personalized, searchable, unstructured corpora

An information handling system that serves as a question and answering (QA) system, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
• a network adapter that connects the information handling system to a computer network;
• and
• a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors to utilize unstructured corpora, wherein the set of instructions perform actions of:
• receiving, from a first user, a question at a question answering (QA) system;
• identifying a set of one or more second users that are subjects of the question;
• generating a private corpora associated with the first user, wherein the private corpora is generated from a first set of one or more private data stores associated with a first user and a second set of one or more private data stores associated with the set of one or more second users, wherein access to the second set of private data stores is provided to the first user by the set of second users;
• retrieving responsive data to the question from the private corpora, wherein the responsive data is ranked based on a relevance to the question;
• identifying one or more likely answers based on the ranked responsive data;
• and
• providing the one or more likely answers to the first user.