Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of September 11, 2023
In this issue: Efficient polyglot analytics on semantic data aids query performance; generative retrieval for conversational question answering improves dialogue-based interfaces; a new tool uses ML to address capacity degradation in lithium-ion batteries.
Publication
Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of August 14, 2023
In this issue: HyWay enables hybrid mingling; Auto-Tables transforms non-relational tables into standard relational forms; training dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLM; improving pronunciation assessment in CAPT.
Project
SpeechX
Neural Codec Language Model as a Versatile Speech Transformer SpeechX is a versatile speech generation model leveraging audio and text prompts, which can deal with both clean and noisy speech inputs and perform zero-shot TTS…