In the news | The AI Blog
As search needs evolve, Microsoft makes AI tools for better search available to researchers and developers
Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it into a search box or…
Microsoft Academic Analytics
To expose our users to the powerful insights provided by Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), we have created analytics pages on the Microsoft Academic website and which focus on each primary ‘entity’ in our graph: Publications, Topics, Authors, Institutions, Journals, and…
Robust Language Representation Learning via Multi-task Knowledge Distillation
Language Representation Learning maps symbolic natural language texts (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vectors. Robust and universal language representations are crucial to achieving state-of-the-art results on many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Ensemble learning is one of…
Awards | UK Office for Artificial Intelligence
Chris Bishop appointed to UK’s AI Council
Chris Bishop was appointed along with other leaders from business, academia and data privacy organizations to the UK’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council created to help boost growth of AI in the UK by promoting its adoption and ethical use in…
In the news | The AI Blog
What’s Microsoft’s vision for conversational AI? Computers that understand you
Today’s intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes and read stories. But, when it comes…
Believe your ears – Hitting all the right notes in spatial sound rendering at ICASSP 2019
Mixed reality (MR) applications and devices are seeing increased adoption, integrating computation into the fabric of our daily lives. This requires realistic rendering of virtual audio-visual content to deliver sensory immersion to MR users. Producing renderings indistinguishable from reality within…
Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
Episode 76, May 15, 2019 When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with your computer… and felt like it truly understood you? Well, if Dr. Xuedong Huang, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Microsoft’s Speech and…
Awards | IEEE Signal Processing Society
Hamid Palangi, Jianfeng Gao receive prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Hamid Palangi, Senior Researcher, Jianfeng Gao, Partner Research Manager, and their collaborators received the prestigious 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper award (Test of Time) for their work on deep sentence embedding for web search engines and information retrieval.…