Adam Lally

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UIMA: an architectural approach to unstructured information processing in the corporate research environment
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In this paper we give a general introduction to UIMA focusing on the design points of its analysis engine architecture and we discuss how UIM a is helping to accelerate research and technology transfer. Expand
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Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
IBM Research undertook a challenge to build a computer system that could compete at the human champion level in real time on the American TV Quiz show, Jeopardy! The extent of the challenge includes… Expand
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Building an example application with the Unstructured Information Management Architecture
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IBM's Unstrutured Information Management Architecture is a software architecture for developing and deploying unstructured information management applications. Expand
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Question analysis: How Watson reads a clue
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The first stage of processing in the IBM Watson™ system is to perform a detailed analysis of the question in order to determine what it is asking for and how best to approach answering it. Expand
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A framework for merging and ranking of answers in DeepQA
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The final stage in the IBM DeepQA pipeline involves ranking all candidate answers according to their evidence scores and judging the likelihood that each candidate answer is correct. Expand
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Structured data and inference in DeepQA
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We present details of appropriate components and demonstrate their end-to-end impact on the IBM Watsoni system. Expand
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Towards the Open Advancement of Question Answering Systems December 2008
David Ferrucci1, Eric Nyberg2, James Allan3, Ken Barker4, Eric Brown1, Jennifer Chu-Carroll1, Arthur Ciccolo1, Pablo Duboue1, James Fan1, David Gondek1, Eduard Hovy5, Boris Katz6, Adam Lally1,… Expand
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Identifying implicit relationships
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Answering natural-language questions may often involve identifying hidden associations and implicit relationships. Expand
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Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
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Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. Expand
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Textual evidence gathering and analysis
One useful source of evidence for evaluating a candidate answer to a question is a passage that contains the candidate answer and is relevant to the question. In the DeepQA pipeline, we retrieve… Expand
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