Bringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
| Hany Hassan Awadalla
Machine translation has become a crucial component in the advancing of global communication. Millions of people are using online translation systems and mobile applications to communicate across language barriers. Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years with the…
Insights on the future of video calling in emergency situations
For most of us, a call to emergency services is a rare act, or one thankfully that we’ve never had to take. Anyone having had to make that call often will, in a calmer future moment, reflect on what transpired…
Not lost in translation with Arul Menezes
Episode 24, May 16, 2018 - Menezes talks about how the advent of deep learning has enabled exciting advances in machine translation, including applications for people with disabilities, and gives us an inside look at the recent “human parity” milestone…
Microsoft Research welcomes Landon Cox, Senior Researcher with a passion for privacy and empowering users worldwide
Microsoft Research further bolsters its research force this month, welcoming Landon Cox to the Mobility and Networking Group as Senior Researcher.
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Intel FPGAs: Accelerating the Future
Project Brainwave is Microsoft's principal architecture for serving real-time artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in Bing's intelligent search, and now offered in Azure and at the edge.
Sounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
| Dimitrios Dimitriadis
Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell's famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in 1876. Today, speech technology has…
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The hidden cost of annoying ads is fewer page views
The study found that, indeed, participants gave up their task more quickly when they were shown annoying ads.
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
| Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Eric Yuan, Soroush Mehri, and Adam Trischler
The Machine Comprehension team at MSR-Montreal recently developed a neural mechanism for metalearning that we call conditionally shifted neurons. Conditionally shifted neurons (CSNs) adapt their activation values rapidly to new data to help neural networks solve new tasks. They do…