I’ve spent a bit of time trying to understand what Watson does, and couldn’t find a clear answer. I’d really appreciate a concise technical explanation.
What I got so far is that it runs a ton of different algorithms and combines the results in some sort of probabilistic reasoning to make a bet on the most likely correct answer. Is that roughly correct? And what are those algorithms then?
I’ve spent a bit of time trying to understand what Watson does, and couldn’t find a clear answer. I’d really appreciate a concise technical explanation.
What I got so far is that it runs a ton of different algorithms and combines the results in some sort of probabilistic reasoning to make a bet on the most likely correct answer. Is that roughly correct? And what are those algorithms then?
Did you see this summary? (The actual description of the system starts on page 9.)
EDIT: Also, the list of papers citing that article may provide papers with further detail. For example, that list contained Question analysis: How Watson reads a clue, which goes into considerably more detail about the question analysis stage.
Thanks for that “How Watson reads a clue” paper, that made it much clearer for me.