Submission + - Watson solved the easy problem (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Within all of the fuss and talk of the "day of the machine" Watson, IBM's question answering machine isn't all its cracked up to be — it isn't a question answering machine but an answer questioning machine and this could just be a whole lot easier.
The Jeopardy! task is actually to find a entity that is defined by the clues provided. Once Watson has the defined entity it just converts it into a question. This way round makes it much easier for the statistical language processing and AI methods that Watson uses.
It is a neat trick to pull off but it probably doesn't lead to general purpose question answering devices.
The Jeopardy! task is actually to find a entity that is defined by the clues provided. Once Watson has the defined entity it just converts it into a question. This way round makes it much easier for the statistical language processing and AI methods that Watson uses.
It is a neat trick to pull off but it probably doesn't lead to general purpose question answering devices.