What is it?
Purpose
Function
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A cognitive system using deep natural language processing to provide answers to natural language questions

What is Watson?

100

Watson provides answers to these types of words through the use of processing and analysis

What are questions?

100

Watson analyzes these in order to provide answers to natural language questions

What are big data sets?

200

A form of computing that simulates human behavior and reasoning to answer questions 

What is a cognitive system?

200

Watson processes this before deriving an answer to a question it is asked

What is natural language?

200

Watson makes use of these lists of steps to determine the strength of possible responses to natural language questions

What are algorithms?

300

Watson won this popular game show in 2011, defeating two previous champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter

What is Jeopardy!?

300

Watson's growing database of information, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, news articles, and more

What is corpus?

300

Watson does this to rank each potential answer until it can find the most probable response to the question

What is score?

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