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Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content | Video

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Project GraphRAG | LLM-Derived Knowledge Graphs

Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 3 | panel discussion

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

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Learning to Relate Literal and Sentimental Descriptions of Visual Properties

Mark Yatsgar, Svitlana Volkova, Asli Celikyilmaz, Bill Dolan, Luke Zettlemoyer

Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2013 | June 2013

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Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog

Heeyoung Lee, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg

Proc. NAACL | June 2013

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Tractable Semi-Supervised Learning of Complex Structured Prediction Models

Kai-Wei Chang, S. Sundararajan, S. Sathiya Keerthi, Keerthi Selvaraj, Sundararajan Sellamanickam

June 2013

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Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder

North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013

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Training MRF-Based Phrase Translation Models using Gradient Ascent

Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He

The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2013

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Speech-Centric Information Processing: An Optimization-Oriented Approach

Xiaodong He, Li Deng

Proceedings of the IEEE | May 2013

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Combining Heterogeneous Models for Measuring Relational Similarity

Alisa Zhila, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig, Chris Meek, Tomas Mikolov

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2013) | May 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2013)

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Linguistic Regularities in Continuous Space Word Representations

Tomas Mikolov, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2013) | May 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2013)

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Microsoft Translator Hub: Discussion of BLEU Score

May 23, 2013 | Chris Wendt, Will Lewis

Chris Wendt interviews Dr. Will Lewis to get a deeper insight into automatic scoring of customized machine translation systems. Microsoft Translator Hub & Bing Translator use an automatic scoring mechanism known as BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation…

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Microsoft Research Blog

How technology can bridge language gaps

May 14, 2013

Speech-to-speech translation promises to help connect our world Among the futuristic gadgets in the classic TV show Star Trek, none seemed more useful than the universal translator, a handheld gizmo that helped foster understanding among intergalactic…

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