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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. 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

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