Answering the Question You Wish They Had Asked: The Impact of Paraphrasing for Question Answering 
 
 State-of-the-art Question Answering (QA) systems are very sensitive to variations in the phrasing of an information need . 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 . 