Deeper QA: CMU, Watson, and the Open Advancement of Question Answering

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Eric Nyberg
Eric Nyberg
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Date

  • 17:00, Thursday, July 19th, 2012
  • Amphitheater of the Complexo Interdisciplinar, IST

Speaker

  • Eric Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

This talk presents a synopsis of 10 years of research and development at Carnegie Mellon in the area of Question Answering systems, including CMU's collaborations with IBM on the Watson system. Recent work in the open-source development of QA systems for different application domains will also be discussed.

Note: This seminar will be held in English.