AND THE DEPENDENCY OUTPUT IS ANALYZED ININ IR THE PROBLEM THAT Q...

1998) and the dependency output is analyzed in

In IR the problem that queries and relevant tex-

order to determine whether relations present in a

tual content often do not exhibit the same terms is

question also appear in a candidate sentence. For

commonly encountered. Latent Semantic Index-

the question “Who killed John F. Kennedy”, for

ing (Deerwester et al., 1900) was an early, highly

example an answer sentence is expected to con-

influential approach to solve this problem. More

tain the answer as subject of the verb “kill”, to

recently, a significant amount of research is ded-

which “John F. Kennedy” should be in object re-

icated to query alteration approaches. (Cui et al.,

lation.