WATSHERE: A Watson Cognitive System to Navigate Social/Health Resources for Public Schools

Abstract

Cognitive computing aims to augment human intelligence with machine intelligence in an information system which can handle structured and unstructured data. Such a cognitive system entails building a corpus with relevant data, improving the corpus with more acquisition of data, and analyzing these data with machine learning algorithms. It then presents the output solution as search results or using visualization. In this paper, we describe a project to design and implement Watson cognitive apps to navigate social/health resources using the IBM Watson system. Although our system was initially designed for community elementary schools in the Bronx, it can be used by other domain application with slight modifications.