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| + | ==== 2011-03-23 Inside the Mind of Watson ==== | ||
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| + | ^WINIFRED ASPREY COMPUTER SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES| | ||
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| + | //**Inside the mind of Watson**// | ||
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| + | Chris Welty \\ | ||
| + | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center | ||
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| + | Wednesday, March 23 \\ | ||
| + | 5:30PM \\ | ||
| + | 200 Rockefeller Hall | ||
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| + | //Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science// | ||
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| + | Watson is a computer system capable of answering rich natural | ||
| + | language questions and estimating its confidence in those answers at | ||
| + | a level of the best humans at the task. On Feb 14-16, in an historic | ||
| + | event, Watson triumphed over the best Jeopardy! players of all | ||
| + | time. In this talk I will discuss how Watson works and dive into some | ||
| + | of its answers (right and wrong). | ||
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| + | Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in | ||
| + | New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at | ||
| + | and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and accumulated | ||
| + | over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. | ||
| + | Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, | ||
| + | ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying | ||
| + | this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the | ||
| + | DeepQA/ | ||
| + | chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the | ||
| + | steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, | ||
| + | is president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal | ||
| + | of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in | ||
| + | the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co- | ||
| + | developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty' | ||
| + | on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in Communications of the | ||
| + | Association for Computing Machinery and numerous other publications. | ||
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