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.
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3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: Afternoon Talks 2 & Closing Remarks
Afternoon Talks 2 17:15 Unsupervised Dependency Grammar Induction with Transferring Distribution and Entropy Regularization, Xuezhe Ma and Fei Xia 17:35 Graph-Based Posterior Regularization for Semi-Supervised Structured Prediction, Luheng He, Jennifer Gillenwater and Ben Taskar 17:55…
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3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: Introduction & Long Talks
9:30 Introduction Blitz Long Talks: 10:00 Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions, Kenton Lee, Yoav Artzi, Jesse Dodge and Luke Zettlemoyer 10:20 Query-based Abstractive Summarization of Conversations, Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng 10:40…
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3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: Short Talks
Short Talks 11:20 Approximate Parsing with “Hedge Grammars”, Mahsa Yarmohammadi 11:32 Context Representation for Named Entity Linking, Xiao Ling, Sameer Singh and Daniel S. Weld 11:44 Leveraging Prior Knowledge of Output Structure for Learning with…
Project
Parser
Definition The Arabic Parser determines the grammatical structure of Arabic sentences, such as which groups of words combine to form phrases and which words are the subject or the object of a verb. The Parser…
Project
Colloquial to Arabic Converter
Definition The colloquial converter provides translation of Egyptian colloquial text into modern standard Arabic along with rich mapping information. Features Translation of colloquial and mixed text The colloquial converter translates Egyptian colloquial text into standard…
Microsoft Research Blog
Anticipating More from Cortana
Most of us can only dream of having the perfect personal assistant, one who is always there when needed, anticipating our every request and unobtrusively organizing our lives. Cortana, the new digital personal assistant powered…
Tool
Smart Selection Dataset
Smart selection is the task of predicting the span of text that a user intended to select after they touched on a single word on a touch-enabled device. The Smart Selection Dataset consists of crowd-sourced…
Microsoft Research Blog
Can Robots Have Social Intelligence?
Visiting Eric Horvitz at Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, Wash., is a full-service experience. At the building’s first-floor bank of elevators, situated on a busy corridor, a “smart elevator” opens its doors, sensing that you…