Using evaluation to improve our question-answering system

It’s tempting to think IBM’s Jeopardy-playing machine Watson must have relied on some huge algorithmic advance or silver bullet idea in order to beat top human Jeopardy players. But the researchers behind Watson have written a very interesting paper about how Watson works, and a different picture emerges. It’s not that they found any super-algorithm… Continue reading Using evaluation to improve our question-answering system