On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Foote <jerryf@footegroup.com> wrote:

> As I understand Watson is passed a question in the form of a text string. A

> number of questions come to my mind.

> 1) When does Watson get question? The question is spoken so the time between

> when the sting is sent and the reader finishes speaking gives Watson all

> that time to look up results.

> 2) Are questions phrased exactly as they appear in lookup tables?

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3) Does Watson have to fire a mechanical response to signal in the answer?

#2 I heard that it gets the same Q.

It first dissects the "Answer" to attempt to gain how to query. Is

the Question about Literature, artists, places, history. It then does

multiple queries and scores the results to determine the best

"Question" and provide that winner.

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