Structured data and inference in DeepQA

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Kalyanpur, A ^a   Boguraev, B K ^a   Patwardhan, S ^a   Murdock, J W ^a   Lally, A ^a   Welty, C ^a   Prager, J M ^a   Coppola, B ^a   Fokoue Nkoutche, A ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Pan, Y ^b   Qiu, Z M ^b  

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

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE ANALYSIS; FORMAL SEMANTICS; GEO-SPATIAL; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; LOGICAL REASONING; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; STRUCTURED DATA; SYSTEM USE; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; UNSTRUCTURED METHODS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84859817245     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2188737     Document Type: Review

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