The Answer Machine by Susan Feldman

The Answer Machine by Susan Feldman

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. Table of Contents: 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

Feldman, Susan: - Susan Feldman is a speech-language pathologist who has been working with children for greater than 25 years. She has a private practice in NYC. Prior to her private practice work, she was employed at a NYC hospital for many years. Susan has a Master of Arts degree in Speech Language Pathology and is licensed to practice in NYS. She is also certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association. She knows that children love books and they are great teaching tools. Books can foster reading skills, language skills and can enhance overall communication. And she loves books!!

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ISBN 13	9783031011528
ISBN 10	303101152X
Title	The Answer Machine
Author	Susan Feldman
Series	Synthesis Lectures On Information Concepts Retrieval And Services
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2012-10-03
Number of pages	119
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