IBM, Jeopardy, and Team Work
February 8, 2011
A reader alerted us to the IBM Jeopardy team. You may find the line up and range of technical expertise interesting. We sure thought it looked expensive. Jeopardy is a popular game show, but IBM either has a keen desire to knock couch potatoes into the fryer or showcase how much dough IBM has to spend on interesting projects.
The Web page for the team is at this IBM Watson page. We counted 10 teams. There were names and photos for 48 people. Yowza. For a company that uses Lucene in the OmniFind search system, our question is, “Why not put this horsepower behind open source search?”
Maybe open source is just a way station on the IBM profit highway?
Stephen E Arnold, February 8, 2011
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A lot of that horsepower is directly and indirectly behind open-source Apache UIMA. UIMA is the Unstructured Information Management Architecture, a text-analytics framework that is used outside IBM by a number of commercial companies such as TEMIS and by a variety of research centers. It is an open, OASIS standard. Its plug-in architecture lets you use third-party annotators, which are software modules that find and extract the information content of text sources. Watson lead David Ferucci formerly headed IBM’s UIMA effort.
Anyway, there’s much, much more to Watson than search.
Seth