syllogism comments on IBM's "Watson" program to compete against "Jeopardy" champions tonight - Less Wrong

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Comment author: syllogism 16 February 2011 11:13:32PM *  1 point [-]

Having looked through their overview paper, I'm no longer sure. They do have modules that do parsing and semantic role labelling and such. But their model is a mixture of dozens of individual models. So it's tough to say much about how things are fitting together. They use more sophisticated techniques than I thought, although I don't know how much contribution those techniques actually make in the final decision.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 17 February 2011 02:42:11AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for looking at the paper and passing on the info about what's actually going in inside it, btw.