http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/#comment-7433 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:01:55 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=880#comment-7433 [...] Herman recently offered some insight into how Watson actually works. Herman reports, “I was at Chris Welty’s keynote yesterday at the WWW2012 Conference. His [...]

]]> http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/#comment-7431 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:01:53 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=880#comment-7431 [...] Herman recently offered some insight into how Watson actually works. Herman reports, “I was at Chris Welty’s keynote yesterday at the WWW2012 Conference. His [...]

]]> http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/20/how-does-watson-work/#comment-7410 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:39:03 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=880#comment-7410 I remember watching a short documentary about it. They also had Watson analyze and index its database for the differences people the 5 W cases so that it could ask the right question for the points. I don’t remember whether or not it knew the difference between fact or fiction but I’m not sure it needed to.

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