Techniques for generating answers to speculative questions are provided. It is determined that a question received by a deep question answering system is speculative, based at least in part on identifying a future tense in the question. A set of candidate answers is generated by one or more predictive algorithms, where each of the one or more predictive algorithms are used to generate at least one estimated future value for an attribute of the question. A score is computed for each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers, and a first candidate answer, of the set of candidate answers, is returned as responsive to the speculative question received by the deep question answering system.
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