Building Watson: An overview of the DeepQA project
IBM Research undertook a challenge to build a computer system that could compete at the
human champion level in real time on the American TV Quiz show, Jeopardy! The extent of …
human champion level in real time on the American TV Quiz show, Jeopardy! The extent of …
UIMA: an architectural approach to unstructured information processing in the corporate research environment
D Ferrucci, A Lally - Natural Language Engineering, 2004 - cambridge.org
IBM Research has over 200 people working on Unstructured Information Management (UIM)
technologies with a strong focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP). These …
technologies with a strong focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP). These …
Question analysis: How Watson reads a clue
A Lally, JM Prager, MC McCord… - IBM Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first stage of processing in the IBM Watson™ system is to perform a detailed analysis of
the question in order to determine what it is asking for and how best to approach answering it…
the question in order to determine what it is asking for and how best to approach answering it…
Building an example application with the unstructured information management architecture
D Ferrucci, A Lally - IBM Systems Journal, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IBM's Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a software architecture
for developing and deploying unstructured information management (UIM) applications. In …
for developing and deploying unstructured information management (UIM) applications. In …
A framework for merging and ranking of answers in DeepQA
DC Gondek, A Lally, A Kalyanpur… - IBM Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The final stage in the IBM DeepQA pipeline involves ranking all candidate answers according
to their evidence scores and judging the likelihood that each candidate answer is correct. …
to their evidence scores and judging the likelihood that each candidate answer is correct. …
Structured data and inference in DeepQA
…, S Patwardhan, JW Murdock, A Lally… - IBM Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the majority of evidence analysis in DeepQA is focused on unstructured information
(eg, natural-language documents), several components in the DeepQA system use …
(eg, natural-language documents), several components in the DeepQA system use …
WatsonPaths: scenario-based question answering and inference over unstructured information
A Lally, S Bagchi, MA Barborak, DW Buchanan… - AI magazine, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
We present WatsonPaths, a novel system that can answer scenario-based questions. These
include medical questions that present a patient summary and ask for the most likely …
include medical questions that present a patient summary and ask for the most likely …
[PDF][PDF] Natural language processing with prolog in the ibm watson system
A Lally, P Fodor - The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) …, 2011 - cs.miami.edu
On February 14-16, 2011, the IBM Watson question answering system won the Jeopardy!
Man vs. Machine Challenge by defeating two former grand champions, Ken Jennings and …
Man vs. Machine Challenge by defeating two former grand champions, Ken Jennings and …
Fact-based question decomposition in DeepQA
…, S Patwardhan, BK Boguraev, A Lally… - IBM Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Factoid questions often contain more than one fact or assertion about their answers.
Question-answering (QA) systems, however, typically do not use such fine-grained distinctions …
Question-answering (QA) systems, however, typically do not use such fine-grained distinctions …
Making watson fast
EA Epstein, MI Schor, BS Iyer, A Lally… - IBM Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IBM Watson™ is a system created to demonstrate DeepQA technology by competing against
human champions in a question-answering game designed for people. The DeepQA …
human champions in a question-answering game designed for people. The DeepQA …