diff --git a/libs/core-ui/src/index.ts b/libs/core-ui/src/index.ts
index c67e37bb25..c9f63fc47a 100644
--- a/libs/core-ui/src/index.ts
+++ b/libs/core-ui/src/index.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IModelExplanationData";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IConfusionMatrixData";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IVisionModelExplanationData";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IWeightedDropdownContext";
+export * from "./lib/Interfaces/ITokenDropdownContext";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IFilter";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/IPreBuiltFilter";
 export * from "./lib/Interfaces/ICohort";
diff --git a/libs/core-ui/src/lib/Interfaces/ITokenDropdownContext.ts b/libs/core-ui/src/lib/Interfaces/ITokenDropdownContext.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79ae0d7702
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/core-ui/src/lib/Interfaces/ITokenDropdownContext.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+import { IComboBox, IComboBoxOption } from "@fluentui/react";
+import React from "react";
+
+export type TokenOption = number
+
+
+export interface ITokenDropdownContext {
+  options: IComboBoxOption[];
+  selectedKey: TokenOption;
+  onSelection: (
+    event: React.FormEvent<IComboBox>,
+    item?: IComboBoxOption
+  ) => void;
+}
diff --git a/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/CommonUtils.ts b/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/CommonUtils.ts
index f5d705c2d7..03ca37e2de 100644
--- a/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/CommonUtils.ts
+++ b/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/CommonUtils.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ export enum RadioKeys {
   Neg = "neg"
 }
 
+export enum QAExplanationType {
+  Start = "start",
+  End = "end"
+}
+
 export class Utils {
   public static argsort(toSort: number[]): number[] {
     /*
diff --git a/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/Control/TextExplanationView/TextExplanationView.tsx b/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/Control/TextExplanationView/TextExplanationView.tsx
index 31bf384112..70023e1a6e 100644
--- a/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/Control/TextExplanationView/TextExplanationView.tsx
+++ b/libs/interpret-text/src/lib/TextExplanationDashboard/Control/TextExplanationView/TextExplanationView.tsx
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ import {
   Text
 } from "@fluentui/react";
 import { WeightVectorOption, WeightVectors } from "@responsible-ai/core-ui";
-import { ClassImportanceWeights } from "@responsible-ai/interpret";
+import { ClassImportanceWeights, TokenImportance } from "@responsible-ai/interpret";
 import { localization } from "@responsible-ai/localization";
 import React from "react";
 
-import { RadioKeys, Utils } from "../../CommonUtils";
+import { RadioKeys, QAExplanationType, Utils } from "../../CommonUtils";
 import { ITextExplanationViewProps } from "../../Interfaces/IExplanationViewProps";
 import { BarChart } from "../BarChart/BarChart";
 import { TextFeatureLegend } from "../TextFeatureLegend/TextFeatureLegend";
@@ -30,8 +30,13 @@ export interface ITextExplanationViewState {
   maxK: number;
   topK: number;
   radio: string;
+  qaRadio?: string;
   importances: number[];
+  singleTokenImportances: number[];
+  selectedToken: number;
+  tokenIndexes: number[];
   text: string[];
+  isQA: boolean // temporal flag for identifying QA
 }
 
 const options: IChoiceGroupOption[] = [
@@ -43,6 +48,15 @@ const options: IChoiceGroupOption[] = [
   { key: RadioKeys.Neg, text: localization.InterpretText.View.negButton }
 ];
 
+const qaOptions: IChoiceGroupOption[] = [
+  /*
+   * Creates the choices for the QA prediction radio button(local testing)
+   * TODO: move text under localization.InterpretText.View
+   */
+  { key: QAExplanationType.Start, text: "STARTING POSITION" },
+  { key: QAExplanationType.End, text: "ENDING POSITION" },
+];
+
 const componentStackTokens: IStackTokens = {
   childrenGap: "m",
   padding: "m"
@@ -59,19 +73,28 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
      * Initializes the text view with its state
      */
     super(props);
-    const weightVector = this.props.selectedWeightVector;
-    const importances = this.computeImportancesForWeightVector(
+    
+    const isQA = false; // FIXME: temporally hardcode the flag, should use prop instead
+
+    const importances = this.computeImportancesForAllTokens(
       this.props.dataSummary.localExplanations,
-      weightVector
     );
+    
+    const selectedToken = 0; // default to the first token
+    const singleTokenImportances = this.getImportanceForSingleToken(selectedToken);
     const maxK = this.calculateMaxKImportances(importances);
     const topK = this.calculateTopKImportances(importances);
     this.state = {
-      importances,
+      importances: importances,
+      singleTokenImportances: singleTokenImportances,
+      selectedToken: selectedToken,
+      tokenIndexes: Array.from(this.props.dataSummary.text, (_, index) => index),
       maxK,
       radio: RadioKeys.All,
+      qaRadio: "starting",
       text: this.props.dataSummary.text,
-      topK
+      topK,
+      isQA
     };
   }
 
@@ -81,16 +104,37 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
       this.props.dataSummary.localExplanations !==
         prevProps.dataSummary.localExplanations
     ) {
-      this.updateImportances(this.props.selectedWeightVector);
+      if (this.state.isQA) {
+        this.setState({  //update token dropdown
+          tokenIndexes: Array.from(this.props.dataSummary.text, (_, index) => index),
+          selectedToken: 0
+        },
+        () => {
+          this.updateTokenImportances();
+          this.updateSingleTokenImportances();
+        })
+      } else {
+        this.updateImportances(this.props.selectedWeightVector);
+      }
     }
   }
 
   public render(): React.ReactNode {
     const classNames = textExplanationDashboardStyles();
+    const qaDescription = 'The left text box and the bar chart display the predictions of the model.' + 
+    'The right textbox shows the feature importance associated with a selected token. Positive feature '  +
+    'importances represent the extent that the words were important towards marking the selected token' + 
+    'as the starting/ending position of the answer.'
+
     return (
       <Stack>
         <Stack tokens={componentStackTokens} horizontal>
-          <Text>{localization.InterpretText.View.legendText}</Text>
+          {
+            this.state.isQA?
+            <Text>{qaDescription}</Text> :
+            <Text>{localization.InterpretText.View.legendText}</Text>
+          }
+          
         </Stack>
         <Stack tokens={componentStackTokens} horizontal>
           <Stack.Item grow disableShrink>
@@ -103,6 +147,8 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
           </Stack.Item>
           <Stack.Item grow className={classNames.chartRight}>
             <Stack tokens={componentStackTokens}>
+              
+              { !this.state.isQA  && ( // classfication
               <Stack.Item>
                 <Text variant={"xLarge"}>
                   {localization.InterpretText.View.label +
@@ -113,9 +159,23 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
                     )}
                 </Text>
               </Stack.Item>
+              )}
+
+              { this.state.isQA && ( // select starting/ending for QA
+              <Stack.Item id="TextChoiceGroup">
+                  <ChoiceGroup
+                    defaultSelectedKey="starting"
+                    options={qaOptions}
+                    onChange={this.switchQAprediction}
+                    required
+                  />
+              </Stack.Item>
+              )}
+
               <Stack.Item>
                 <Label>{localization.InterpretText.View.importantWords}</Label>
               </Stack.Item>
+
               <Stack.Item id="TextTopKSlider">
                 <Slider
                   min={1}
@@ -126,7 +186,18 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
                   onChange={this.setTopK}
                 />
               </Stack.Item>
-              <Stack.Item>
+
+              { this.state.isQA?            
+               (<Stack.Item>
+                <TokenImportance
+                  onTokenChange={this.onSelectedTokenChange}
+                  selectedToken={this.state.selectedToken}
+                  tokenOptions={this.state.tokenIndexes}
+                  tokenLabels={this.state.text}
+                />
+              </Stack.Item>)
+              :
+              (<Stack.Item>
                 <ClassImportanceWeights
                   onWeightChange={this.onWeightVectorChange}
                   selectedWeightVector={this.props.selectedWeightVector}
@@ -134,6 +205,9 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
                   weightLabels={this.props.weightLabels}
                 />
               </Stack.Item>
+              )
+              }
+
               {this.props.selectedWeightVector !== WeightVectors.AbsAvg && (
                 <Stack.Item id="TextChoiceGroup">
                   <ChoiceGroup
@@ -147,6 +221,7 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
             </Stack>
           </Stack.Item>
         </Stack>
+
         <Stack tokens={componentStackTokens} horizontal>
           <Stack.Item
             align="stretch"
@@ -161,10 +236,31 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
               radio={this.state.radio}
             />
           </Stack.Item>
+
+          { this.state.isQA && (
+          <Stack.Item
+            align="stretch"
+            grow
+            disableShrink
+            className={classNames.textHighlighting}
+          >
+            <TextHighlighting
+              text={this.state.text}
+              localExplanations={this.state.singleTokenImportances}
+              topK={
+                // keep all importances for single token(set topK to length)
+                this.state.singleTokenImportances.length
+              }
+              radio={this.state.radio}
+            />
+          </Stack.Item>
+          )}
+
           <Stack.Item align="end">
             <TextFeatureLegend />
           </Stack.Item>
         </Stack>
+        
       </Stack>
     );
   }
@@ -174,11 +270,21 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
     this.props.onWeightChange(weightOption);
   };
 
+  private onSelectedTokenChange = (newIndex: number): void => {
+
+    this.setState(
+      { selectedToken: newIndex },
+      () => {
+        this.updateSingleTokenImportances();
+      });
+  };
+
   private updateImportances(weightOption: WeightVectorOption): void {
     const importances = this.computeImportancesForWeightVector(
       this.props.dataSummary.localExplanations,
       weightOption
     );
+
     const topK = this.calculateTopKImportances(importances);
     const maxK = this.calculateMaxKImportances(importances);
     this.setState({
@@ -189,6 +295,28 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
     });
   }
 
+
+  // for QA
+  private updateTokenImportances(): void {
+
+    const importances = this.computeImportancesForAllTokens(
+        this.props.dataSummary.localExplanations,
+      );
+    const topK = this.calculateTopKImportances(importances);
+    const maxK = this.calculateMaxKImportances(importances);
+    this.setState({
+      importances,
+      maxK,
+      topK,
+      text: this.props.dataSummary.text
+    });
+  }
+
+  private updateSingleTokenImportances(): void {
+    const singleTokenImportances = this.getImportanceForSingleToken(this.state.selectedToken);
+    this.setState({singleTokenImportances: singleTokenImportances});
+  }
+
   private calculateTopKImportances(importances: number[]): number {
     return Math.min(
       MaxImportantWords,
@@ -222,6 +350,27 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
     );
   }
 
+  private computeImportancesForAllTokens(
+    importances: number[][]
+  ): number[] {
+    /*
+     * sum the tokens importance
+     * TODO: add base values?
+     */
+
+    const sumImportances = importances[0].map((_, index) =>
+      importances.reduce((sum, row) => sum + row[index], 0)
+    );
+
+    return sumImportances;
+  }
+
+  private getImportanceForSingleToken(
+    index: number
+  ): number[] {
+    return this.props.dataSummary.localExplanations.map(row => row[index]);
+  }
+
   private setTopK = (newNumber: number): void => {
     /*
      * Changes the state of K
@@ -240,4 +389,18 @@ export class TextExplanationView extends React.PureComponent<
       this.setState({ radio: item.key });
     }
   };
+
+  private switchQAprediction = (
+    _event?: React.FormEvent,
+    item?: IChoiceGroupOption
+  ): void => {
+    /*
+     * switch to the target predictions(starting or ending)
+     * TODO: add logic for switching explanation data 
+     */
+    if (item?.key !== undefined) {
+      this.setState({ qaRadio: item.key });
+    }
+  };
+
 }
diff --git a/libs/interpret/src/index.ts b/libs/interpret/src/index.ts
index 0ee6695c72..f30eda7c5b 100644
--- a/libs/interpret/src/index.ts
+++ b/libs/interpret/src/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/NewExplanationDashboard";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Interfaces/IExplanationDashboardProps";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Interfaces/IStringsParam";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/ClassImportanceWeights/ClassImportanceWeights";
+export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/GlobalExplanationTab/GlobalExplanationTab";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/GlobalExplanationTab/IGlobalSeries";
 export * from "./lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/ModelPerformanceTab/ModelPerformanceTab";
diff --git a/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.styles.ts b/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.styles.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f10de55dcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.styles.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+import { IStyle, mergeStyleSets, IProcessedStyleSet } from "@fluentui/react";
+
+export interface ILabelWithCalloutStyles {
+  tokenLabel: IStyle;
+  tokenLabelText: IStyle;
+}
+
+export const tokenImportanceStyles: () => IProcessedStyleSet<ILabelWithCalloutStyles> =
+  () => {
+    return mergeStyleSets<ILabelWithCalloutStyles>({
+      tokenLabel: {
+        display: "inline-flex",
+        paddingTop: "10px"
+      },
+      tokenLabelText: {
+        fontWeight: "600",
+        paddingTop: "5px"
+      }
+    });
+  };
diff --git a/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.tsx b/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8e6683cac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/interpret/src/lib/MLIDashboard/Controls/TokenImportance/TokenImportance.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+import {
+    Dropdown,
+    IDropdownOption,
+    Text
+  } from "@fluentui/react";
+  import { TokenOption } from "@responsible-ai/core-ui";
+  import React from "react";
+  
+  import { tokenImportanceStyles } from "./TokenImportance.styles";
+  
+  export interface ITokenImportanceProps {
+    onTokenChange: (option: TokenOption) => void;
+    selectedToken: TokenOption;
+    tokenOptions: TokenOption[];
+    tokenLabels: any;
+    disabled?: boolean;
+  }
+  interface ITokenImportanceState {
+    tokenOptionsMap: { key: TokenOption; text: any }[];
+  }
+  
+  export class TokenImportance extends React.Component<
+    ITokenImportanceProps,
+    ITokenImportanceState
+  > {
+    public constructor(props: ITokenImportanceProps) {
+      super(props);
+
+      this.state = {
+        tokenOptionsMap: this.props.tokenOptions?.map((option) => {
+            return {
+              key: option,
+              text: this.props.tokenLabels[option]
+            };
+          })
+      };
+    }
+
+    public componentDidUpdate(prevProps: ITokenImportanceProps): void {
+      if (this.props.tokenOptions !== prevProps.tokenOptions || 
+          this.props.tokenLabels !== prevProps.tokenLabels
+      ) {
+        this.setState({
+          tokenOptionsMap: this.props.tokenOptions?.map((option) => {
+            return {
+              key: option,
+              text: this.props.tokenLabels[option]
+            };
+          })
+        })
+      }
+    }
+
+    public render(): React.ReactNode {
+      const tokenNames = tokenImportanceStyles();
+      return (
+        <div id="TokenImportance">
+          <div className={tokenNames.tokenLabel}>
+            <Text
+              variant={"medium"}
+              className={tokenNames.tokenLabelText}
+            >
+              {"Selected Token"}
+            </Text>
+
+          </div>
+          {this.state.tokenOptionsMap && (
+            <Dropdown
+              options={this.state.tokenOptionsMap}
+              selectedKey={this.props.selectedToken}
+              onChange={this.setTokenOption}
+              ariaLabel={"selected token"}
+              disabled={this.props.disabled ?? false}
+            />
+          )}
+        </div>
+      );
+    }
+  
+    private setTokenOption = (
+      _event: React.FormEvent<HTMLDivElement>,
+      item?: IDropdownOption
+    ): void => {
+      if (item?.key === undefined) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      const newIndex = item.key as TokenOption;
+      this.props.onTokenChange(newIndex);
+    };
+  }
+