IBM Watson Just Analysed a TV Debate. Read to Know How

Bloomberg Television's show "That's Debatable" had an unusual participant on its show broadcasted on October 9. In a debate on the topic "Is it time to redistribute the world's wealth?", IBM Watson synthesised thousands of responses and opinions received from the public to incorporate into the debate. IBM Watson used a new natural language processing feature called key point analysis which categorises and summarises thousands of public opinions to a handful of concrete key points. Key point analysis is basically the next generation of'extractive summarisation' which processes statements in a given text document to summarise the most significant points.