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title: 'Keynote at YDS 2015: Information Discovery, Partridge and Watson'
author: James
type: post
date: 2015-11-02T21:07:28+00:00
url: /2015/11/02/keynote-at-yds-2015-information-discovery-partridge-and-watson/
categories:
  - PhD
  - Work
tags:
  - extraction
  - ibm
  - information
  - papers
  - partridge
  - retrieval
  - scientific
  - watson
  - yds

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  Here is a recording of my recent keynote talk on the power of Natural Language processing through Watson and my academic/PhD topic &#8211; Partridge &#8211; at York Doctoral Symposium.
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  0-11 minutes &#8211; history of mankind, invention and the acceleration of scientific progress (warming people to the idea that farming out your scientific reading to a computer is a much better idea than trying to read every paper written)
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  11-26 minutes &#8211; My personal academic work &#8211; scientific paper annotation and cognitive scientific research using NLP
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  26- 44 minutes &#8211; Watson &#8211; Jeopardy, MSK and Ecosystem
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  44 &#8211; 48 minutes Q&A on Watson and Partridge
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Please don&#8217;t cringe too much at my technical explanation of Watson &#8211; especially those of you who know much more about WEA and the original DeepQA setup than I do! This was me after a few days of reading the original 2011 and 2012 papers and making copious notes!

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  (Equally please don&#8217;t cringe too much about my history of US Presidents @ 37:30- I got Roosevelt and Reagan mixed up in my head!)
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