IBM Watson Computer As an Editor

IBM's Watson Learns to Critique the Tone of Your Writing

Ryan Whitwam | July 20, 2015

It has been four years since IBM’s Watson learning machine put the best human trivia buffs to shame with its (literally) encyclopedic knowledge of all things. That was just a demo of the technology, though. IBM has spent the intervening years leveraging Watson’s cognitive computing platform in a number of commercial applications in healthcare, banking, and education.

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<more at http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/210253-ibms-watson-learns-to-critique-the-tone-of-your-writing; related links: http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/17/ibm-watson-tone-analyzer-writing/ (Et tu, Watson? IBM's supercomputer can critique your writing) and https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/07/16/ibm-watson-tone-analyzer-service-experimental-release-announcement/ (IBM Watson Tone Analyzer – new service now available. July 16, 2015 ["The Tone Analyzer service uses linguistic analysis to detect emotional tones, social propensities, and writing styles in written communication. Then it offers suggestions to help the writer improve their intended language tones."]>

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