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
Meeting Recognition and Understanding
In most organizations, staff spend many hours in meetings. This project addresses all levels of analysis and understanding, from speaker tracking and robust speech transcription to meaning extraction and summarization, with the goal of increasing…
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Research Bits: Juan Carlos and Agustin Gravano
“Research Bits” provide a glimpse into the research being conducted around the world through brief interviews with researchers. First, Juan Carlos Niebles from the Universidad del Norte in Colombia, talks about his research in computer…
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Deep Machine Learning: a Panel
This panel session of the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit looks at deep learning, a sub-field of machine learning that focuses on hierarchical representations of features or concepts, where high-level semantic-like features can emerge via…
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Research in Focus: Sign Language Translation
Today, researchers are using Kinect’s amazing abilities in a host of applications, from surgery to virtual fitting rooms. Stewart Tansley of Microsoft Research, Tim Pan of Microsoft Research Asia, and Professor Xilin Chen of the…
