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The article is split into 8 pages. Eight. Pages. The worst part is that only one every several sentences had meaningful information. And that is the New York Times. Did someone else had the same thoughts or am I acquiring ADHD?
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1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html...
The article is split into 8 pages. Eight. Pages. The worst part is that only one every several sentences had meaningful information. And that is the New York Times. Did someone else had the same thoughts or am I acquiring ADHD?
It appears that I might be clueless. Maybe they will revamp the company into the default search engine of the internet. Maybe they will own a cloud service for companies to automatic data mining.
Watson will go against former best "Jeopardy!" players this Fall. However, I think it's a bit overarching to label this as an application of a natural question answering system, as is done in this article. "Jeopardy!"'s answer snippets are not like normal questions that, say, a tax software would encounter, I think. "When one I.B.M. executive suggested taking on “Jeopardy!” he was immediately pooh-poohed. Deep Blue w…
'"Jeopardy!"'s answer snippets are not like normal questions that, say, a tax software would encounter, I think.' I'm not sure, but are you saying that you think it's easier to answer Jeopardy questions than tax questions? I wouldn't think so. The tighter you constrain the domain, the better the computer will do.
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'"Jeopardy!"'s answer snippets are not like normal questions that, say, a tax software would encounter, I think.' I'm not sure, but are you saying that you think it's easier to answer Jeopardy questions than tax questions? I wouldn't think so. The tighter you constrain the domain, the better the computer will do.
But in some ways, Jeopardy is much more constrained than tax questions. You know that the question will have a relatively short statement, the answer will be in the form of a question with probably no more than 5 words being actually relevant with the rest being used to make it into a question. Furthermore, you know that breadth of knowledge is generally more significant depth. Having a database of every nation's cap…
Proverb is able to solve about 90% of the clues in an average week of New York Times puzzles. Of course, Proverb has an advantage over Watson: the letters of intersecting clues are dependent, so the probabilities of different clues reinforce each other, giving better estimates of likely letters.
http://www.oneacross.com/proverb/
(http://www.oneacross.com/ has a limited version of Proverb online which can guess at individual crossword clues -- invaluable if you get stuck on one.)
Watson will go against former best "Jeopardy!" players this Fall. However, I think it's a bit overarching to label this as an application of a natural question answering system, as is done in this article. "Jeopardy!"'s answer snippets are not like normal questions that, say, a tax software would encounter, I think. "When one I.B.M. executive suggested taking on “Jeopardy!” he was immediately pooh-poohed. Deep Blue w…
“Classic candy bar that’s a female Supreme Court justice” — “What is Baby Ruth Ginsburg?” [Of course, Google now knows the answer :) ]
Can someone explain how it can do that? Can it solve cryptics too (way harder than crosswords)?
Amazing...
Watson will go against former best "Jeopardy!" players this Fall. However, I think it's a bit overarching to label this as an application of a natural question answering system, as is done in this article. "Jeopardy!"'s answer snippets are not like normal questions that, say, a tax software would encounter, I think. "When one I.B.M. executive suggested taking on “Jeopardy!” he was immediately pooh-poohed. Deep Blue w…
Tax processing software aside, how might this do on the NY times crossword puzzle? On the one hand, the answers are more constrained because they have to fit, but good clues are impossibly cryptic for the average human to parse.
I think that's the most useful application suggested.