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How do these services work, compsci-wise? Could someone link a few IBM publications explaining how the Question & Answer API works? That would be very helpful.
by bolaft 12y ago
How do these services work, compsci-wise? Could someone link a few IBM publications explaining how the Question & Answer API works? That would be very helpful. The documentation pages explain nothing.
- pesenti 12y agoGood suggestions. Most of these have published papers, we'll add that to the documentation soon. In the meantime you can read an overview of the Watson Jeopardy system here: http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php.
- bolaft 12y agoThanks, that would be great.
- pridkett 12y agoThe research group within IBM that's working on the question and answer portion of Watson is called DeepQA. You can check out lots of information about the team, including publications, at http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpage.php?id=2159 http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpa...
- bolaft 12y agoThanks for the info.
- jlas 12y agoSome of these services definitely draw from the area of Natural Language Processing [1] and Semantic Analysis [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis_(machine_learning) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis_(machine_lear...
- bolaft 12y agoThanks, however I was already aware of that, I was looking for something more specific.