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.
Project
Project Diviner
Dated back in the Shang dynasty, the oracle bone script is the oldest form of Chinese language engraved on animal bones. A large body of the characters and writings still remains mysterious and awaits to…
Microsoft Research Blog
Advancing human-centered AI: Updates on responsible AI research
Artificial intelligence, like all tools we build, is an expression of human creativity. As with all creative expression, AI manifests the perspectives and values of its creators. A stance that encourages reflexivity among AI practitioners…
Tool
SPADE: State Space Augmented Transformer
This PyTorch package implements the language modeling experiments in Efficient Long Sequence Modeling via State Space Augmented Transformer.
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Advancing end-to-end automatic speech recognition and beyond
The speech community is transitioning from hybrid modeling to end-to-end (E2E) modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While E2E models achieved state-of-the-art results in most benchmarks in terms of ASR accuracy, there are lots of…
Tool
DeFacto: Natural Language Generation from Natural Interactions
DeFacto is a dataset containing human demonstrations and feedback for improving the factual consistency of text summarization.