References
Can a robot pass the university of tokyo math entrance exam?| IBM Watson (Deep QA) | The Watson system by IBM is taking on human Jeopardy champions. It is a self-contained (no access to the internet) QA system that uses a method to combine results from numerous probabilistic "experts" which look for solutions to the questions in different ways. | [1] Towards the Open Advancement of Question Answering Systems. 2009. |
| HALO | Project Halo, is a project funded by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. Pilot/Phase I:Three companies built systems capable of answering Advanced Placement Test level questions in sub-areas of chemistry. However, the effort cost $10,000 per page. Phase II: develop tools to lower the price. | Papers |
| CALO | Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes. DARPA-funded project. Evaluation was an aptitude-like test in an Administration domain that tested learning in the wild. Questions were coded in a special logic language to make it understandable by the computer. | Papers |
| ACQUAINT | DARPA-funded project. | Papers |
| TREC | DARPA-funded project. | Papers |
| NTCIR | DARPA-funded project. | Papers |
| Google Poetry | Google adapts their translation algorithm to generate poetry forms (rhyme, meter) | WSJ |
| Numenta | Neural architecture based on the neo-cortex. Could be relevant for an analogy handling point of view. | Papers |
| Analogy | Hofstadter, D. (2001). Analogy as the Core of Cognition, in Dedre Gentner, Keith Holyoak, and Boicho Kokinov (eds.) The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Book, 2001, pp. 499538. | Papers |