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1h8mHISTORY / 2011
Watson and the Jeopardy! challenge
IBM’s Watson combined language analysis, information retrieval, evidence scoring and other methods to answer Jeopardy! questions. It defeated Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the televised 2011 contest.
What happened next
Watson demonstrated a question-answering system built for a specific task. Its result did not establish unrestricted language understanding. Ferrucci’s presentation and the DeepQA paper describe how the system worked.
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43m45sDr. David Ferrucci, "Building Watson an Overview of the DeepQA Project" @TiEcon 2011
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