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<Paper uid="N06-2009">
  <Title>Answering the Question You Wish They Had Asked: The Impact of Paraphrasing for Question Answering</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> State-of-the-art Question Answering (QA) systems are very sensitive to variations in the phrasing of an information need.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Finding the preferred language for such a need is a valuable task. We investigate that claim by adopting a simple MT-based paraphrasing technique and evaluating QA system performance on paraphrased questions. We found a potential increase of 35% in MRR with respect to the original question.</Paragraph>
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