{"id":8487,"date":"2019-05-09T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:04:58","slug":"how-does-ibms-watson-computer-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/05\/09\/how-does-ibms-watson-computer-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does IBM&#8217;s Watson Computer work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw050919-4.jpg\" alt=\"How does IBM's Watson Computer work? [Response: Simple Answer PL2!]\" class=\"wp-image-8469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw050919-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw050919-4-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How does IBM&#8217;s Watson Computer work? [Response: Simple Answer PL2!]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While some search engines rely on one algorithm that combines contextual analysis and popularity rankings to determine relevancy, Watson uses multiple algorithms simultaneously and then compares the various results to arrive at the most likely answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some search engines rely on one algorithm that combines contextual analysis and popularity rankings to determine relevancy, Watson uses multiple algorithms simultaneously and then compares the various results to arrive at the most likely answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tech","tag-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}