text mining and text analytics this allows for the creation of automatic reasoning engines driven by natural language queries figure shows how "wolfram alpha, computational knowledge engineuses text mining and automatic reasoning to answer the question "is the usa population bigger than china?figure the wolfram alpha engine uses text mining and logical reasoning to answer question if this isn' impressive enoughthe ibm watson astonished many in when the machine was set up against two human players in game of jeopardy jeopardy is an american quiz show where people receive the answer to question and points are scored for guessing the correct question for that answer see figure it' safe to say this round goes to artificial intelligence ibm watson is cognitive engine that can interpret natural language and answer questions based on an extensive knowledge base