Task: Question Answering
Input (English): A simple, yet recurrent text model is the well-known word co-occurrence network. After optional textual pre-processing steps, in a co-occurrence network each different word becomes a node and edges are established via co-occurrence in a desired window. A common strategy connects only adjacent words in the so called word adjacency networks.

While the co-occurrence representation yields good results in classification scenarios, some important features are not considered in the model. For example, long-range syntactical links, though less frequent than adjacent syntactical relationships, might be disregarded from a simple word adjacency approach BIBREF12. 
 Question: What is the reason that traditional co-occurrence networks fail in establishing links between similar words whenever they appear distant in the text?
Output (English): long-range syntactical links, though less frequent than adjacent syntactical relationships, might be disregarded from a simple word adjacency approach