On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Colin Kern wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alain Baeckeroot
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Le 03/03/2011 13:47, Don Dailey a écrit :
> >
> >> I am rather curious how they designed the software to answer trivia
> >> questions and what the problems were.
> >>
> >
> > see http://lwn.net/Articles/427665/ the last 2 comments (#5 and #6) give
> > references to the tech part.
> >
>
> There's also a whole book about it by Stephen Baker of Numerati fame.
> It's a good read.
> http://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopardy-Machine-Quest-Everything/dp/0547483163/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299188628&sr=8-1
Unfortunately, when looking for actual technical details, every popular
article seems to be really shallow. Something like
> Unfortunately, Baker's book does not provide details on how these
> Linux-managed algorithms and processors are able to work together and in
> sequence. Neither do we learn much about how AI takes eg. any subject
> and determines what types of words are most and least associated with
> it, or Watson's use of some 100+ algorithms to analyze a question in
> different ways, the results of which are then ranked by another set of
> algorithms (eg. "Was the contender alive that year?"). (New York Times,
> 6/20/2010).
from the Amazon page is pretty much the best I have been able to find.
Did anyone find any further details on the actual "100+ algorithms"?
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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than studying brushes and pigment can make an expert painter. --esr
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