I am doing almost no programming (other than some simple website stuff) but I have started to wonder if my basic ideas about language might be used as a basis for improving web search engines. So I started with my usual, fairly sophisticated, ideas, but then I started wondering how I could get them to work with a search engine like Watson. If you are going to try to Interface with an existing search engine you are going to get stuck with their limitations. And then I realized the question was not whether I could get Watson to hold a conversation in order to make more intelligent searches, but whether I could learn how it interprets certain forms of statements and then use that as a way of communicating with it and thereby making it look more like it is communicating with me. In the end I might not get it to learn - through conversation - to find the kind of information that I might be interested in, but I might be able to learn something about the way it "thinks" and then use this to make a more sophisticated user interface. I am seriously thinking about pursuing this. I assume that IBM is still letting developers access Watson online in some form. Jim Bromer
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