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Re:Watson Services by wtbob on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:32AM (#8426532)
Odd that Farsi is supported, not Polish, given that Poland's GDP is close to Iran's and that Poland has no sanctions against it. Perhaps IBM is planning to sell lots of Watson-powered systems in Afghanistan & Tajikistan?

Incidentally, Poland's GDP is several times that of Finland…

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Re:Watson Services by jameshart on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @12:08PM (#8427661)
Do you not think there might be a market for software for analyzing text in Farsi perhaps -outside- the region where it's actually spoken?

(disclaimer - work for IBM, but not on Watson, or anything related to intelligence analytics)

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Re:Watson Services by pridkett on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @09:13AM (#8426693)
Polish as a language is more similar to other languages than Finnish or Farsi. Basically, it's easier to detect Farsi and Finnish because they're more distinct and in smaller language families than Polish, which is similar to many slavic languages.
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