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Description
Dr. David Ferrucci is a Research Staff Member and leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s T.J. Watson’s Research Center. His team of 25 researchers focuses on developing technologies for discovering knowledge in natural language and leveraging those technologies in a variety of intelligent search, data analytics, and knowledge management solutions.
In 2007, Dr. Ferrucci began exploring the feasibility of designing a computer system that can rival human champions at the game of Jeopardy!. Dubbed DeepQA, the project focused on advancing natural language question answering using massively parallel evidence-based computing. After winning support, Ferrucci has set and driven the technical agenda for Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge.
Lectures:
invited talk![]() as author at 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco 2011, 6822 views |
invited talk![]() as author at Alan Turing Centenary Conference Manchester, 2012, 5338 views |
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