Watsonsim: Overview of a Question Answering Engine
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The objective of the project is to design and run a system similar to Watson, designed to answer Jeopardy questions. In the course of a semester, we developed an open source question answering system using the Indri, Lucene, Bing and Google search engines, Apache UIMA, Open- and CoreNLP, and Weka among additional modules. By the end of the semester, we achieved 18 Jeopardy questions, and work has not stopped since then.
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