The document describes improving a question answering system for Romanian using textual entailment. It discusses adapting an English textual entailment system to Romanian by using GATE for named entity recognition and developing resources like an acronym database and background knowledge from Wikipedia. It also explains how the textual entailment system is used to rank possible answers by checking the entailment between question patterns and sentences containing answers. The system achieved a 5% improvement in precision over the question answering system without textual entailment.