  Question answering (QA) has been the subject of a resurgence over the past
years. The said resurgence has led to a multitude of question answering (QA)
systems being developed both by companies and research facilities. While a few
components of QA systems get reused across implementations, most systems do not
leverage the full potential of component reuse. Hence, the development of QA
systems is currently still a tedious and time-consuming process. We address the
challenge of accelerating the creation of novel or tailored QA systems by
presenting a concept for a self-wiring approach to composing QA systems. Our
approach will allow the reuse of existing, web-based QA systems or modules
while developing new QA platforms. To this end, it will rely on QA modules
being described using the Web Ontology Language. Based on these descriptions,
our approach will be able to automatically compose QA systems using a
data-driven approach automatically.
