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by pesenti 12y ago
Thanks! The Watson research team has a long tradition with MT (this is the team that actually invented statistical MT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation ) and always achieves top rankings in ma
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by pesenti 12y ago
Yes but it's not yet available. The current service only provides a fixed domain but we will extend the API and provide tools to allow you to specify a custom domain. Offering the ability to domain adapt all these services will be a ke
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by pesenti 12y ago
Yes you can use Python with these services and BlueMix. See a tutorial here: http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/08/getting-started-python-ib...
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by pesenti 12y ago
You don't have to register to see the docs and the demos. Every demo is 2 clicks away from the front page. Registering is free but necessary, as for every other Paas to create your own app. Tell us where is the "big corp red tape&
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by pesenti 12y ago
Good 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&#x2F
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by pesenti 12y ago
Our plan is definitely to allow you to use this on your Android/IPhone app once we are GA.
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by pesenti 12y ago
Sorry we have a bug with character normalization which messes up punctuation parsing. That accounts for most of the mistakes here ("its" is not a mistake, it refers to the owner). Here is the fixed output: Adobe ORGANIZATION Dig
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by pesenti 12y ago
We have a bug with quotes/punctuation that we are fixing now (that account for 1 & 3). "its" is not necessarily a mistake, it likely refers to the owner. "shoulder pad" is a mistake due to the probabilistic natu
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by pesenti 12y ago
We have found a bug with character normalization (which messes up the parsing of the punctuation). We'll fix this today.
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by pesenti 12y ago
I am not super familiar with Stanford NLP or NLTK, but I don't believe they overlap with more than two or three (relationship extraction, and maybe language id and some MT) of the services here. The value we want to bring is by providi
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by pesenti 12y ago
As mentioned in other comments, this language is not yet supported. But it would be better to return "unknown" rather than guessing, so we'll look into that.
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by pesenti 12y ago
The demos are really made to demonstrate some basic input/output usage. Combination apps are indeed where we think developers will find the most value. We plan to have an app gallery to show that soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by pesenti 12y ago
Sorry Polish is not one of the supported language yet: Arabic; Chinese (Simplified); Chinese (Traditional); Cyrillic; Danish; Dutch; English; Farsi; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi; Icelandic; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Norweg
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by pesenti 12y ago
1. Right now we are working on a revenue sharing basis with the start ups that sign up as ecosystem partners (they also have access to more capabilities). http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/ibm-sees-salvation-in
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by pesenti 12y ago
This is the first batch of APIs that my team - the Watson Developer Cloud team - is exposing through IBM BlueMix for everybody to try and use. We have many more APIs in the pipeline but we decided to come out quickly with a small set to sta
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Show HN: Watson Developer Cloud(ibm.com)
9 points by pesenti 12y ago|1 comments
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by pesenti 12y ago
No, this article does go against the theories in "The Selfish Gene" (which only predict kin selection). See the whole row between Dawkins and Wilson over multi-level selection: http://www.theguardian.com/science&#x
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Germany to Consider Ban on Late-Night Work Emails(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by pesenti 12y ago|0 comments
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by pesenti 12y ago
Why does it have to involve people who don't have money? How about not producing the food in the first place through better logistic? That could potentially be a huge saving for rich people.
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by pesenti 12y ago
Even if you ignore the symbolism of throwing food while people still die of hunger, I am surprised by the "so what?" reaction of this crowd. Isn't YC about improving efficiencies? Yes there is waste elsewhere, the average ser
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by pesenti 12y ago
Yes that's a hard problem but thankfully an automated system would get a pass on that, i.e., for the problems we are trying to solve, any of these answers would be considered a reasonable answer... because it's hard enough to even
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by pesenti 12y ago
The actual Watson program that performed on Jeopardy is pretty well described in publications. You can start here: http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23... for example. The ri
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by pesenti 12y ago
Question answering is actually much harder than was is presented in the article because most questions people ask are not factoid questions. Consider the following that Watson needed to address at a recent customer engagement (an insurance
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by pesenti 12y ago
No that's wrong. If 74/week is the average for the top 10 percentile, most likely half of that, a bottle a day, gets you in the top 10.
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by pesenti 12y ago
The article says: "But in order to break into the top 10 percent of American drinkers, you would need to drink more than two bottles of wine with every dinner." And according to Watson that's 10 drinks ;-) ( http://
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by pesenti 12y ago
The article is misleading. You don't need to drink 74 drinks per week to be in the top 10 percentile. 74 drinks is the average of all those in the top 10 percentile and not the lower boundary.
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by pesenti 12y ago
Yes BlueMix is a Heroku competitor. It is the easiest way to consume Watson APIs but won't be the only way. I can't disclose pricing yet.
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BlackBerry, Under New Leadership, Unveils Its Newest Smartphone(nytimes.com)
36 points by pesenti 12y ago|47 comments
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by pesenti 12y ago
Yes we know and are working on it. The soon-to-come next version should fix all these issues.
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by pesenti 12y ago
Copyright is a tricky issue indeed and we are still figuring it out (working with publishers).

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