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Watson/DeepQA: parallel evidence aggregation for open-domain quiz answering

Contribution grade

Question-answering systems · Human-designed research method or resource

Reference score185,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

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

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. 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.

Evidence

The linked original sources describe the stated contribution and its evidence limits. WRS has not independently rerun the experiments or certified a proof. 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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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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