The answer machine [electronic resource]
- Responsibility
- Susan E. Feldman.
- Imprint
- San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2012.
- Physical description
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 119 p.).
- Series
- Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
- Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services #23.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Feldman, Susan.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-114) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction The Query Process and Barriers to Finding Information Online Online Search: An Evolution Search and Discovery Technologies: An Overview Information Access: A Spectrum of Needs and Uses Future Tense: The Next Era in Information Access and Discovery Answer Machines.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content analytics to software buyers, knowledge managers, and searchers who want to understand and design effective online environments. The book describes how search evolved from an expert-only to an end user tool. It provides an overview of search engines, categorization and clustering, natural language processing, content analytics, and visualization technologies. Detailed profiles for Web search, eCommerce search, eDiscovery, and enterprise search contrast the types of users, uses, tasks, technologies, and interaction designs for each. These variables shape each application, although the underlying technologies are the same. Types of information tasks and the trade-offs between precision and recall, time, volume and precision, and privacy vs. personalization are discussed within this context. The book examines trends toward convenient, context-aware computing, big data and analytics technologies, conversational systems, and answer machines. The Answer Machine explores IBM Watson's DeepQA technology and describes how it is used to answer health care and Jeopardy questions. The book concludes by discussing the implications of these advances: how they will change the way we run our businesses, practice medicine, govern, or conduct our lives in the digital age.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Question-answering systems.
- Research > Technological innovations.
- Information behavior.
- Watson (Computer)
- search engines
- content analytics
- user interaction
- natural language processing
- contextual awareness
- probabilistic computing
- big data
- analytics
- conversational systems
- enterprise search
- Web search
- eDiscovery
- eCommerce search
- unified information access
- InfoApps
- machine learning
- adaptive systems
- answer machines
- IBM Watson
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2012
- Series
- Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services, 1947-9468 ; #23
- Note
- Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
- Series from website.
- Access
- Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.
- Referenced in
- Compendex
- INSPEC
- Google scholar
- Google book search
- Note
- Also available in print.
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- ISBN
- 9781608459353 (electronic bk.)
- 9781608459346 (pbk.)
- 1608459357 (ebook)
- DOI
- 10.2200/S00442ED1V01Y201208ICR023
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