Last week we watched Watson, an IBM super-computer, beat not one but two Jeopardy champions simultaneously at their own game.
What especially intrigued me most is the way Watson does NLP, as it is similar in philosophy to how we do it here at Clarabridge. You see, Watson doesn’t just use one approach. The boffins behind the machine could have fought religious NLP geek wars and said “we will only use statistical NLP” or “we will only use machine learning” or “we will only use full rules-based....