Abstract. This paper describes the approach for analyzing questions in our community-based Vietnamese question answering system (VnCQAs), in which we focus on two subtasks: question classification and keyword identification. The question classification employs the machine learning approaches with a feature which represents a measure of similarity between two questions, while the keyword identification uses the dependency-tree-based features. Experimental results are promising, in which the question classification obtains the accuracy of 95.7% and the keyword identification gains the accuracy of 85.8%. Furthermore, these two subtasks help to improve the accuracy for finding the similar questions in our VnCQAs by 6.75%.