[moomba]

This article doesn't really tell you how to build a "Watson Jr." as they call it. It just tells you to use OpenNLP and UIMA (which is unnecessary, but understandable why its advocated since IBM created it).

I was kind of hoping that there would be a deeper dive into how the data was being stored and retrieved. I'm also interested in the Machine Learning side of it. They don't really give any hints at that as well.

[nl]

Actually, UIMA was used to train Watson (https://cwiki.apache.org/UIMA/powered-by-apache-uima.html).

You are right that UIMA isn't needed, but some kind of tool for importing unstructured or semi-structured data is required.