Microsoft and Tsinghua University Work Together on Open Academic Data Research
In a recent collaboration, Microsoft and China’s Tsinghua University released an academic graph, named Open Academic Graph (OAG). This billion-scale academic graph integrates the current Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) and Tsinghua's AMiner academic graph. Specifically, it contains the metadata information…
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Sea of Thieves team put anti-toxicity strategies into gameâs core design
Jerome Hagen, a user researcher at Microsoft, spoke about design strategy at GDC 2018 today in a panel on empowering players and combating multiplayer toxicity.
MSRA and Microsoft Hong Kong decided to host a joint symposium to share the latest research and technologies with academic customers in disciplines including: medicine, biomed and public health, environment, law, and transportation.
Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
Episode 16, March 21, 2018 - Dr. Trischler talks about his dream of making literate machines, his efforts to design meta-learning algorithms that can actually learn to learn, the importance of what he calls “few-shot learning” in that meta-learning process,…
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Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
Dr. Trischler talks about his dream of making literate machines, efforts to design meta-learning algorithms that can actually learn to learn, and how, through a process of one-to-many mapping in machine learning, our computers not may not only be answering…
SwiftKey 7.0: A big change under a small ‘+’
Last week’s rollout of SwiftKey 7.0 is the intelligent keyboard app’s biggest update since joining Microsoft in April 2016. Available on both Android and iOS, SwiftKey 7.0 debuts Toolbar, an expandable menu found under a new '+' sign on the…
微软人工智能又一里程碑：微软中-英机器翻译水平可“与人类媲美”
继在语音识别和机器阅读领域取得的“过人”成绩，由微软亚洲研究院与雷德蒙研究院的研究人员组成的团队今天宣布，其研发的机器翻译系统在通用新闻报道测试集newstest2017 (opens in new tab)的中-英测试集上，达到了可与人工翻译媲美的水平。这是首个在新闻报道的翻译质量和准确率上可以比肩人工翻译的翻译系统。 newstest2017新闻报道测试集由产业界和学术界的合作伙伴共同开发，并...
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Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person.
March 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 this blog once a month.…