Watson Services

Re:Watson Services by skorgu on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @07:48AM (#8426391)

Agreed. For kicks I dumped a bunch of dmr biographical material (Wired, NYT, his personal web page) into http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html

Some "PERSONS" it found, everything between '' is [sic]:

'C' 'Cobol' 'B begat C.' '”' (yes, a single fancy closing quote) 'engineer' '’ initials' '’70s' '“Jobs’ genius'

Some of it is understandable given how annoying single-character identifiers are to parse and others are roughly reasonable in context.

Even given some of those quirks I bet it would be useful if you had bajillions of pages (cough ediscovery cough) to search through instead of a few general-audience articles.

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Re:Watson Services by simias on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:17AM (#8426476)

Yeah it's pretty bad, even inputing a well written news article like this one: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/08/return-of-joh...

    ”              PERSON
    its            ORGANIZATION
    ’s Wear Daily  PERSON
    shoulder pad   DISEASE

The rest is mostly correct (although random punctuation seems included at times) but it's nothing you couldn't get by word matching using a big dictionary. It reminded me to get tested for shoulder pads though, so there's that.

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Re:Watson Services by pesenti on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @10:55AM (#8427181)

We have a bug with quotes/punctuation that we are fixing now (that account for 1 & 3). "its" is not necessarily a mistake, it likely refers to the owner. "shoulder pad" is a mistake due to the probabilistic nature of the algorithms used.

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Re:Watson Services by parsabg on Thursday October 09, 2014 @07:59AM (#8431834)

FWIW I ran the article through AYLIEN's Text API and here's what I got: http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua...

(disclaimer: I'm the founder of AYLIEN)

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Re:Watson Services by shrikant on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:07AM (#8426444)

For anyone else who wants to know, 'dmr' in parent post is Dennis Ritchie.

(I knew this, but didn't make the association right away, and it's quite hard to search online for 'dmr')

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Re:Watson Services by pdabbadabba on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @09:23AM (#8426722)

You should've asked Watson. Then you would have learned the truth: dmr is 's wear daily.

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Re:Watson Services by TillE on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:41AM (#8426565)

Searching for 'dmr person' does the trick with Google. Top result, and a sidebar of Dennis Ritchie.

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Re:Watson Services by jonperl on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:25PM (#8428538)

Interesting, this service is a lot like http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage

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Re:Watson Services by pesenti on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @10:53AM (#8427172)

We have found a bug with character normalization (which messes up the parsing of the punctuation). We'll fix this today.

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Re:Watson Services by pesenti on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @06:13PM (#8429741)

We fixed the bug with punctuation. Can you try again?

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Re:Watson Services by skorgu on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:40PM (#8468289)

Took me a while but I retried. It's definitely better, to the point that I have to stretch a bit to find really bad errors. "B begat C" still makes it in as do a few similar ones but considering how pathological a case a single-letter identifier is I can forgive that.

I assume because the identifiers aren't unique that they're returned in the underlying api as text locations. Hmm now I want to throw EDGAR data at this.

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