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Project GraphRAG | LLM-Derived Knowledge Graphs

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PARIKSHA: A Scalable, Democratic, Transparent Evaluation Platform for Assessing Indic Large Language Models

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Prosody-Based Unsupervised Speech Summarization with Two-Layer Mutually Reinforced Random Walk

Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yun-Nung Chen, Florian Metze

Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013) | October 2013

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Lyrics translator app music to interns’ ears

October 2, 2013

Interns Priya Ganesan, Kat Zhou, and Michelle Agcamaran discuss the particular challenges each of them faced during their summer internships at Microsoft Research Redmond. The three spent the summer working on Song Translator, a project…

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Animacy Detection with Voting Models

Joshua L. Moore, Chris J.C. Burges, Erin Renshaw, Scott Wen-tau Yih

Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | October 2013

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Multi-Relational Latent Semantic Analysis

Kai-Wei Chang, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Chris Meek

Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | October 2013

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Joint Language and Translation Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks

Michael Auli, Michel Galley, Chris Quirk, Geoffrey Zweig

Proc. of EMNLP | October 2013

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Regularized Minimum Error Rate Training

Michel Galley, Chris Quirk, Colin Cherry, Kristina Toutanova

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), best paper finalist | October 2013

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Multi-Domain Adaptation for SMT Using Multi-Task Learning

Lei Cui, Xilun Chen, Dongdong Zhang, Shujie Liu, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

EMNLP 2013 | October 2013

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Learning Deep Structured Semantic Models for Web Search using Clickthrough Data

Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Larry Heck

October 2013

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Efficient Implementation of the Spectral Division Method for Arbitrary Virtual Sound Fields

Jens Ahrens, Mark Thomas, Ivan Tashev

Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics | October 2013

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Speaking in Someone Else’s Language

September 30, 2013

Springtime on the sun-drenched Amalfi Coast. A perfect little café perched high above the sea, the scent of jasmine and lemon blossoms wafting past. You open the menu, hungry for lunch. Oh, wait—you don’t know…

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