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Azure Health Bot expands its template catalog to amplify the patient voice through PRO collection
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus to place patients at the center of healthcare decisions, improve safety, enhance experience and maximize the value of the provided care. Self-reporting of daily functioning and health outcomes from the patient, rather than caregiver…
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Summarize text with Text Analytics API
The extractive summarization feature in Text Analytics uses natural language processing techniques to locate key sentences in an unstructured text document. These sentences collectively convey the main idea of the document. This feature is provided as an API for developers.…
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Top 10 AI Innovations Of 2021 So Far
Listed as one of the top 10 AI innovations of 2021 by Analytics India Magazine, Microsoft’s FLAML is a python package that can tell us the best-fit ML model for low computation. It helps eliminate the manual process of choosing…
Make Every feature Binary: A 135B parameter sparse neural network for massively improved search relevance
| Junyan Chen, Frédéric Dubut, Jason (Zengzhong) Li, and Rangan Majumder
Recently, Transformer-based deep learning models like GPT-3 have been getting a lot of attention in the machine learning world. These models excel at understanding semantic relationships, and they have contributed to large improvements in Microsoft Bing’s search experience (opens in…
The Jobs-to-be-Done (JBTD) framework that is gaining more and more traction among our research community. If you’re new to the JBTD, you may be taken aback by different approaches to defining a job and different schools of thought, and Jim Kalbach’s “The Jobs to be Done playbook” can be…
New Future of Work: Redefining workspaces as hybrid and remote work become more prevalent with Jaime Teevan and Ginger Hudson
In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Principal User Research Manager Ginger Hudson share how people evolved their home office setups throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and they explore how information workers used…
Transformer is well acknowledged to be the most powerful neural network in modelling sequential data, such as in natural language and speech. Model variants built upon Transformer have also shown great performance in computer vision and programming language. However, Transformer…
The rise of parallel chat in online meetings: how can we make the most of it?
| Advait Sarkar and Sean Rintel
“I’ll put a link to that doc in the chat” “Sorry, my internet is terrible, I’ll put my question in the chat” “That GIF from Amy in the chat is hilarious” If these phrases sound familiar to you, you’re not…
Microsoft appointed Dr. Lidong Zhou, Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. He is responsible for the lab’s overall research and development activities in both Beijing and Shanghai and will also oversee the lab’s collaborations with academic…