Description: Abstract: This paper presents the architecture of the Question-Answering server (QAS) developed at the Language Computer Corporation (LCC) and used in the TREC-10 evaluations. LCC's QAS™ extracts answers for (a) factual questions of variable degree of difficulty; (b) questions that expect lists of answers; and (c) questions posed in the context of previous questions and answers. One of the major novelties is the implementation of bridging inference mechanisms that guide the search for answers to complex questions. Additionally, LCC's QAS™ encodes an efficient way of modeling context via reference resolution. In TREC-10, this system generated an RAR of 0.58 on the main task and 0.78 on the context task.