The Fort Lauderdale firm of Marshall C. Watson, for example, charges $200 for a title search on Fannie Mae files.
Using statistical pattern-matching, Watson, for example, recognized that the phrase "holy city" was more likely to be St.
Watson, for example, is being adapted for business uses, first in health care to assist doctors in making diagnoses.
On first meeting Dr. John H. Watson, for example, he runs through a split-second inventory of social, political and geographical facts and announces, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive".
Watson, for example, might come across this question in a medical text: "What neurological condition contraindicates the use of bupropion?" The software may have bupropion, an antidepressant, in its database, but stumble on "contraindicates".
IBM's Watson, for example, uses supervised learning.
All of these works feature numerous other fictional characters, of course (Ophelia and Dr Watson, for example); indeed, some works of fiction are characterized by the sheer abundance of their characters (Russian novels are often said to have this characteristic).
The API has been more than 1.5 years in development at this point, and they claim "much higher accuracy and much higher speed" at parsing sentences than IBM Watson, for example.
