Learning 日本語

Spanish. Check. Portuguese. Check. Japanese? You got it. Cognitive polyglot IBM Watson is now taking on one of the ultimate linguistic challenges by adding Japanese to its repertoire. IBM and Tokyo-based SoftBank are teaching Watson to get a grasp of the thousands of kanji, 46 katakana and 46 hiragana characters, not to mention the almost endless contextual nuances Japanese presents. Once fluent, Watson will be able to understand, speak and think in Japanese, so it can analyze questions in the country’s mother tongue. 

9 years ago