as part of our conversation about functionalism & AI (see the discussion about hypothesis and the talk about "corpus" around 4:00).
also, read this article, by ray kurzweil.
to proper understand what Watson does you should be proficient in these areas:
natural language processing, which includes
SYNTAX
morphological linguistics,
parsing,
lexical semantics (a promising subfield of the intersection between syntax and semantics)
SEMANTICS
machine translation,
natural language understanding (this is where the name AI comes from)
sentiment analysis (I love this, where the psychology intersects para-logical processes)
disambiguation,
discourse analysis,
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