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Bing Search explains how it fixes Bad Spelling in 100 Languages
One fantastic feature in search engines is that they can understand when you misspell a word and correct it. This seemingly simple feature saves a lot of time in an average internet user’s life, but we haven’t quite known how…
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Microsoft Teams could use AI to analyze people’s expressions during video meetings
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive…
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Microsoft announces Speller100, a new AI-powered tool that checks spelling in 100+ languages
Microsoft has launched a new language system that should help to improve the search experience in Bing. The tool is called Speller100, and it leverages several AI models to correct spelling in over 100 languages to make the search engine…
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This cutting-edge cloud-computing service is helping researchers track COVID’s spread
As computational science and data science are becoming closer than ever, a deal with Microsoft could see Verily and Broad Institute's open-source cloud platform hit new users.
Research teams across Microsoft have conducted studies to better understand how those changes impacted our customers, ranging from consumers, to students and teachers, to Information Workers (IWs). This global effort now belongs to a larger body of research, known as…
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Microsoft: Here’s how we fix bad spelling in 100 languages to get you the right search results
Microsoft has explained how it is using a variety of technologies and techniques to fix bad spellings that can mean queries addressed to its Bing search engine would otherwise deliver the wrong results. The software giant is getting back to…
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Microsoft says it’s developed ‘the most comprehensive spelling correction system ever made’
Microsoft has unveiled an AI system called Speller100 that corrects spelling in over 100 languages used in search queries on Bing. “We believe Speller100 is the most comprehensive spelling correction system ever made in terms of language coverage and accuracy,”…
Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages
| Jingwen Lu, Jidong Long (龙继东), and Rangan Majumder
At Microsoft Bing, our mission is to delight users everywhere with the best search experience. We serve a diverse set of customers all over the planet who issue queries in over 100 languages. In search we’ve found about 15% of…
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Microsoft details Speller100, an AI system that checks spelling in over 100 languages
In a post on its AI research blog, Microsoft today detailed a new language system, Speller100, that the company claims is one of the most comprehensive ever made in terms of linguistic coverage and accuracy. Comprising a number of AI models…