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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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…
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Predicting Depression via Social Media
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Entailment: An Effective Metric for Comparing and Evaluating Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Annotation Schemes
Hierarchical or nested annotation of linguistic data often co-exists with simpler non-hierarchical or flat counterparts, a classic example being that of annotations used for parsing and chunking. In this work, we propose a general strategy…