Jerome PesentiVP, Core Technology, IBM Watson

Cognitive Computing

Answer Scoring

Models

Responses with Confidence

Inquiry

Evidence Sources

Models

Models

Models

Models

ModelsPrimarySearch

CandidateAnswerGeneration

HypothesisGeneration

Hypothesis and Evidence Scoring

Final Confidence Merging & RankingSynthesis

Answer Sources

Inquiry/Topic Analysis

EvidenceRetrieval

Deep Evidence Scoring

Learned Modelshelp combine and weigh the Evidence

HypothesisGeneration

Hypothesis and Evidence Scoring

InquiryDecomposition

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