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Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription virtual microphone arrays
Microsoft Research's 'Project Denmark' technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more.
Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
Episode 75, May 8, 2019- Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforcement learning expert who is working, in his own words, to solve machine learning. Rafah Hosn,…
SpaceFusion: Structuring the unstructured latent space for conversational AI
| Xiang Gao
A palette makes it easy for painters to arrange and mix paints of different colors as they create art on the canvas before them. Having a similar tool that could allow AI to jointly learn from diverse data sources such…
Incentivizing information explorers (when they’d really rather exploit)
Everyone is familiar by now with recommendation systems such as on Netflix for movies, Amazon for products, Yelp for restaurants and TripAdvisor for travel. Indeed, quality recommendations are a crucial part of the value provided by these businesses. Recommendation systems…
In the spirit of "Nickel and Dimed", a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.
Autonomous soaring – AI on the fly
| Andrey Kolobov
The past few years have seen tremendous progress in reinforcement learning (RL). From complex games to robotic object manipulation, RL has qualitatively advanced the state of the art. However, modern RL techniques require a lot for success: a largely deterministic…
Minimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
| Benjamin Fish
Lots of important information, including job openings and other kinds of advertising, are often transmitted by word-of-mouth in online settings. For example, social networks like LinkedIn are increasingly used as a way of spreading information about job opportunities, which can…
New Advancements in Spoken Language Processing
| Xuedong Huang
Deep learning algorithms, supported by the availability of powerful Azure computing infrastructure and massive training data, constitutes the most significant driving force in our AI evolution journey. In the past three years, Microsoft reached several historical AI milestones being the…
微软机器阅读理解系统性能升级，刷新CoQA对话式问答挑战赛纪录
近日，由微软亚洲研究院自然语言处理组与微软雷德蒙语音对话组研究员组成的团队，在斯坦福大学发起的对话式问答挑战赛CoQA（Conversational Question Answering Challenge）中荣登榜首，成为目前排行榜上唯一一个模型分数超过人类分数的团队。 CoQA是由关于不同领域文章的一组组对话式问答构成的大型数据集，要求机器对文本进行阅读理解，然后对一系列相互关联的问题作出回答...