We propose a query expansion method using Genetic Algorithms(GA) in Japanese. Recently, question answering research focuses
on contextual questions. Therefore a question answering system has to resolve contextual problems by using both previous questions
and previous answers. This problem is largely related to query expansion because of the need to find new keywords. In the
contextual processing, a query needs to find other suitable keywords from related resources. Although it is easy for a system
to find related words, it is difficult to find a suitable combination of keywords. GA is better suited for a combination problem
just like a knapsack problem. Therefore we apply GA to our contextual query expansion method. In the evaluation experiment,
MRR was 0.2531 in 360 contextual questions. We confirm the MRR of our method is higher than that of the baseline. We illustrate
our method and the experiment.