The 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

The 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...