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Integrated question decomposition, high-recall candidate generation, soft filtering, heterogeneous evidence scorers, answer merging and learned confidence estimation in a parallel UIMA-based question-answering architecture.
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The2010 report describes precontest architecture and measured performance, not the later2011 televised victory. Twelve paper authors are not asserted to exhaust the larger engineering team. General QA integration only; proposed medical/business applications are not established outcomes and no biological or medical achievement is added.
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David Ferrucci; Eric Brown; Jennifer Chu-Carroll; James Fan; David Gondek; Aditya A. Kalyanpur; Adam Lally; J. William Murdock; Eric Nyberg; John Prager; Nico Schlaefer; Chris Welty
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Watson/DeepQA: parallel evidence aggregation for open-domain quiz answering
Integrated question decomposition, high-recall candidate generation, soft filtering, heterogeneous evidence scorers, answer merging and learned confidence estimation in a parallel UIMA-based question-answering architecture.
Scientific scope
The2010 report describes precontest architecture and measured performance, not the later2011 televised victory. Twelve paper authors are not asserted to exhaust the larger engineering team. General QA integration only; proposed medical/business applications are not established outcomes and no biological or medical achievement is added.
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People and systems
David Ferrucci; Eric Brown; Jennifer Chu-Carroll; James Fan; David Gondek; Aditya A. Kalyanpur; Adam Lally; J. William Murdock; Eric Nyberg; John Prager; Nico Schlaefer; Chris Welty
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.