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.
Video
Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content
This seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in May 2024. User-generated content (UGC), e.g. social media posts written in “Internet language”, presents a lot of…
Video
Insights into the Challenges and Opportunities of Large Multi-Modal Models for Blind and Low Vision Users: CLIP
Daniela Massiceti delves into the transformative potential of multimodal models such as CLIP for assistive technologies. Specifically focusing on the blind/low-vision community, the talk explores the current distance from realizing this potential and the advancements…
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Panel: Generative AI for Global Impact: Challenges and Opportunities
Microsoft researchers discuss the challenges and opportunities of making AI more inclusive and impactful for everyone—from data that represents a broader range of communities and cultures to novel use cases for AI that are globally…
Dataset Source Code
DOSA
A dataset of social artifacts from different Indian geographical subcultures. This repo hosts the code to run experiments on the DOSA dataset.
Publication
Language Models can be Deductive Solvers
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024
How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.
