Matthew Dixon
Senior Software Developer
About
Matthew Dixon is a Software Developer at the Microsoft Research Montréal lab. He provides engineering support to researchers in the Microsoft Research labs to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and to push the state of the art further. His work also transfers successful research outcomes into Microsoft products and the Open Source community.
Prior to the Microsoft acquisition of Maluuba, Matthew started as a co-op student at Maluuba in the Spring of 2012. After graduating, he joined full-time as a Systems Engineer and worked end-to-end on production content products and developer platforms.
Graduate from the University of Waterloo, BMath Honours Computer Science (With Distinction – Dean’s Honours List), 2013.
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A phonetic matching made inˈhɛvən
Recently, Microsoft Research Montréal open sourced a phonetic matching component used previously in Maluuba Inc.'s natural language understanding platform. The library contains string comparison utilities that operate on a phoneme level as opposed to a character level. This allows upstream…