Entity linking is a cognitive capability essential to human communication. It contains two challenging components: first, entity conflation, where we recognize that even though an entity is referred to by different names, it is still one item; and second, entity…
The future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
Episode 8, January 17, 2018 - If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, you’re in good company: some of the world’s smartest people admit they don’t really understand it either.…
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The future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
Dr. Svore shares her passion for quantum algorithms and their potential to solve some of the worldâs biggest problems, explains why Microsoftâs topological quantum bit â or qubit â is a game changer for quantum computing, and assures us that,…
微软亚洲研究院机器阅读系统在SQuAD挑战赛中率先超越人类水平
在由斯坦福大学发起的SQuAD（Stanford Question Answering Dataset）文本理解挑战赛的最新榜单上，微软亚洲研究院自然语言计算组于2018年1月3日提交的R-NET模型在EM值（Exact Match, 表示预测答案和真实答案完全匹配）上以82.650的最高分领先，并率先超越人类分数82.304。 微软亚洲研究院院长洪小文第一时间向自然语言计算组表示了祝贺：“这对于...
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Ranveer Chandra earns 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award for FarmBeats
Ranveer Chandra received a 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, for the FarmBeats AI & IoT Agriculture project. The forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the geospatial community – people who build and use technologies…
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Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person
With machine reading comprehension, researchers say computers also would be able to quickly parse through information found in books and documents and provide people with the information they need most in an easily understandable way.
January 2018 graph update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. You can always see the current numbers on our homepage, and we document them on the blog once a month.…
Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
Episode 7, January 10, 2018 - When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by comparison. But Dr. Simon Peyton Jones would like to remind us that computer…
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Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
Dr. Peyton Jones shares his passion for functional programming research, reveals how a desire to help other researchers write and present better turned him into an unlikely YouTube star, and explains why, at least in the world of programming languages,…