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Cloud providers unite on frictionless health data exchange
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a bigger and more central part of the infrastructure of healthcare. We see this as a historic shift that motivates us to think hard about how to ensure that, in this cloud-based future, interoperable health…
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Analyzing ambiguity and word embeddings by probing semantic classes
| Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
Word embeddings have had a big impact on many applications in natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval. It is, therefore, crucial to open the blackbox and understand their meaning representation. We propose probing tasks for analyzing the meaning representation…
Bringing the power of machine reading comprehension to specialized documents
| T. J. Hazen
With the advent of AI assistants, initially developed for structured databases and manually curated knowledge graphs, answers to the types of basic fact-based questions people encounter during the course of regular conversation became keystrokes or a verbal cue away. What…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Bringing the power of machine reading comprehension to specialized documents
Microsoft researchers are developing a transfer learning-based approach for adapting general question answer models to documents in specialized domains. Their new demonstration system can answer questions against Welcome to Canada, the Canadian government's guidebook for new immigrants.
In the news | TED
The next software revolution: programming biological cells.
Computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn explains how her team is studying embryonic stem cells to gain a new understanding of the biological programs that power life -- and develop 'living software' that could transform medicine, agriculture and energy.
The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: a resource for training and evaluating common sense in AI
| Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, and Hannes Schulz
AI has made major strides in the last decade, from beating the world champion of Go, to learning how to program, to telling fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude machines: common sense. Common sense…
SIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
| Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, and Andrey Kolobov
Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…
Learning web search intent representations from massive web search logs
| Paul Bennett, Chenyan Xiong, and Corby Rosset
Have you ever wondered what happens when you ask a search engine to search for something as seemingly simple as “how do you grill salmon”? Have you found yourself entering multiple searches before arriving at a webpage with a satisfying…