A system for automated question answering in a given timeframe, the system comprising: a semantic space generated from a corpus of questions and answers; a user interface configured to receive a question from a user; and a processor for identifying and fine-tuning an answer to the question within the given timeframe comprising the following: a question decomposition engine configured to decompose the received question into at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word; a question similarity generator configured to identify one or more questions in the semantic space using the decomposed question, wherein the identified one or more questions are determined to be similar to the received question; an answer extraction and ranking engine configured to: (i) extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions, wherein the extracted answers are limited to a specific length in dependence of the given timeframe and one or more sentences of the answers from the semantic space that are most representative of the at least one focus word and one keyword are selected as extracted answers; (ii) identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and an answer tuning engine configured to fine-tune the identified best answers using one or more of the at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word, to re-rank the best answers and to identify a single best answer; wherein the single best answer is provided to the user via the user interface in the given timeframe. a semantic space generated from a corpus of questions and answers; a user interface configured to receive a question from a user; and a processor for identifying and fine-tuning an answer to the question within the given timeframe comprising the following: a question decomposition engine configured to decompose the received question into at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word; a question similarity generator configured to identify one or more questions in the semantic space using the decomposed question, wherein the identified one or more questions are determined to be similar to the received question; an answer extraction and ranking engine configured to: (i) extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions, wherein the extracted answers are limited to a specific length in dependence of the given timeframe and one or more sentences of the answers from the semantic space that are most representative of the at least one focus word and one keyword are selected as extracted answers; (ii) identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and an answer tuning engine configured to fine-tune the identified best answers using one or more of the at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word, to re-rank the best answers and to identify a single best answer; a question decomposition engine configured to decompose the received question into at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word; a question similarity generator configured to identify one or more questions in the semantic space using the decomposed question, wherein the identified one or more questions are determined to be similar to the received question; an answer extraction and ranking engine configured to: (i) extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions, wherein the extracted answers are limited to a specific length in dependence of the given timeframe and one or more sentences of the answers from the semantic space that are most representative of the at least one focus word and one keyword are selected as extracted answers; (ii) identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and an answer tuning engine configured to fine-tune the identified best answers using one or more of the at least one domain, one keyword, and one focus word, to re-rank the best answers and to identify a single best answer; wherein the single best answer is provided to the user via the user interface in the given timeframe.