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Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson

You're reading from   Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson Build smart applications using artificial intelligence as a service

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478298
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Bakshi Tanmay Bakshi
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Robert High Robert High
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Background, Transition, and the Future of Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Can Machines Converse Like Humans? 3. Computer Vision 4. This Is How Computers Speak 5. Expecting Empathy from Dumb Computers 6. Language - How Watson Deals with NL 7. Structuring Unstructured Content Through Watson 8. Putting It All Together with Watson 9. Future - Cognitive Computing and You 10. Another Book You May Enjoy

Natural language translation – the past 

Traditionally, Language Translation (LT) has been a very involved  process—people have thought that only humans can really logically translate from one language to another. It requires a uniquely human representation and understanding of the contents of a sentence, paragraph, or document. LT is more than just understanding sentimentit's about recreating the input data in a different style. It's complex due to the various words, word types, and sentence structures of different languages, and for the following reasons:

  • Some words don't have gender attributes
  • Some have gender attributes for everythinga chair can be masculine or feminine in German
  • Most don't have the word you
  • Most languages, such as French, don't have a literal translation of the English word for fun...
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