Type Bill Gates’ name into Google and the search engine will eagerly suggest things you might want to know about him. His net worth? Book recommendations? Information about his house? This ...

The International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) of Armonk, NY, is a multinational technology and consulting corporation with an unshakable lead in the realm of intellectual property ...

Community Question Answering systems (CQA) are interactive online platforms that facilitate the exchange of knowledge by connecting individuals who seek answers with others who can provide them. These ...

From the beginning of the digital age, we’ve looked to our computers for answers. Nowhere is this so evident as in the computer science discipline known as question answering, or QA. Overlapping the ...

As with any Do-It-Yourself (DIY) project, I am not responsible if you are not happy with your Watson Jr. I am basing the approach on what I read from publicly available sources, and my work in Linux, ...

A computer that can have a conversation with you in real, human language is a hallmark of science fiction films, but has always seemed ludicrously unrealistic. Here’s the thing: IBM just built one.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added natural language question answering to its unstructured data analytics engine. The engine, HPE IDOL, uses machine learning to boost the accuracy of human ...