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.
Group
Office of Applied Research
The Office of Applied Research is helping to ensure that Microsoft is doing cutting edge research towards our core product interests, supporting the applied research community within Microsoft, and building bridges between product groups and…
Project
Multi-Domain Task-Completion Dialog Challenge II
As part of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9), Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University are hosting Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II, aiming to solve two tasks in the multi-domain task completion setting. End-to-end…
Podcast
Microsoft’s AI Transformation, Project Turing and smarter search with Rangan Majumder
Rangan Majumder is the Partner Group Program Manager of Microsoft’s Search and AI, and he has a simple goal: to make the world smarter and more productive. But nobody said simple was easy, so he…
Project
Project Tokyo
Project Tokyo aims to understand how to create a visual agent technology that is both useful and usable in the real world by focusing on how AI technology can help to augment people’s own capabilities.
Publication
Theories of conversation for conversational IR
Publication
Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II
Group
Deep Learning Group
The Deep Learning group advances the state-of-the-art in deep learning to achieve general intelligence. We develop algorithms, models, and systems in deep supervised and unsupervised learning, deep reinforcement learning, and neural-symbolic reasoning, and then pursue breakthroughs in computer vision,…
Video
Exploring Massively Multilingual, Massive Neural Machine Translation
We will be giving an overview of the recent efforts towards universal translation at Google Research. From training a single translation model for 100+ languages to scaling neural networks beyond 80 billion parameters with 1000…
