Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Microsoft Research Blog
A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and…
Microsoft Research Blog
NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration — looking back after one year
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science Significant technical advancements in cloud computing have led to lower infrastructure costs, making possible big storage and big computing. Big data technology, though, requires cross-discipline research within and beyond…
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Fundamentals of User Studies
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
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Automatic Speech Recognition – An Overview
An overview of how Automatic Speech Recognition systems work and some of the challenges.
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AI and Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Open Evening Healthcare is just one of the areas where we are using AI to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. If you are studying or working in machine learning,…
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Spoken Dialogue Systems – Personal Assistants and Non-Task Oriented Systems
Part 2 of Alan W Black’s Spoken Dialogue Systems talk based on lectures he gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Spoken Dialog Systems – Task Oriented Systems
Tutorial on what actual dialog systems are like and the problems we have with them, based on lectures Alan gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
Microsoft Research Blog
Presenting the winners of the Project Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge
By Noburu Kuno, Senior Research Program Manager; Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Principal Research Program Manager As we move from narrow AI to more general AI, it will be important to instill machines with the ability to work…
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Cognitive Computing on Heterogeneous Hardware Systems for the AI Revolution
Many envision that AI (artificial intelligence) will usher in the next iteration of technology revolution, where humans and machines will work side-by-side to augment, enhance, or accelerate our ability to analyze, learn, create, and think.…
