Warum "Watson" ein Durchbruch ist

Frage-Antwort-Systeme haben eine lange Tradition, siehe: R. F. Simmons, "Natural Language Question-Answering Systems: 1969", Comm. of the ACM, V. 13, N. 1, 1970, S. 15-30.

N. Nilsson, The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.

David Ferrucci et al. "Towards the Open Advancement of Question Answering Systems", IBM Research Report, RC 24789, April 2009.

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba, John Prager, Abraham Ittycheriah, "In Question Answering, Two Heads Are Better Than One", Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003, S. 24-31.

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, und Chris Welty, "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project", AI Magazine, Herbst 2010, S. 59-79.

Nico Schlaefer, "Statistical Source Expansion for Question Answering", Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011.

S. Zeki, "The Disunity of Consciousness",TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, V.7, N.5, Mai 2003.