Building watson: An overview of the deepQA project

AI Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 59-79

  Ferrucci, David ^a   Brown, Eric ^a   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a   Fan, James ^a   Gondek, David ^a   Kalyanpur, Aditya A ^a   Lally, Adam ^a   Murdock, J William ^b   Nyberg, Eric ^c   Prager, John ^a   Schlaefer, Nico ^c   Welty, Chris ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES; CORE TEAMS; HUMAN EXPERT; LABORATORY EXERCISE; QUESTION ANSWERING; REAL TIME; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 79953685181     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i3.2303     Document Type: Article

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