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How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies by Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research
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2:00:00 PM on 7/14/2011
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Stauffer Hall - SLH 200
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Speaker: Dr. Gerry Tesauro, IBM Research
Host: Prof. Fei Sha
Abstract:
Major advances in Question Answering technology were needed for Watson to play Jeopardy! at championship level -- the show requires rapid-fire answers to challenging natural language questions, broad general knowledge, high precision, and accurate confidence estimates.
In addition, Jeopardy! features four types of decision making carrying great strategic importance: (1) selecting the next clue when in control of the boa...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1241
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