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.
Publication
Layer Trajectory BLSTM
Publication
Acoustic-to-Phrase Models for Speech Recognition
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Icecaps: An open-source toolkit for conversation modeling
How we act, including how we speak, is more often than not determined by the situation we find ourselves in. We wouldn’t necessarily use the same tone and language with friends during a night out…
Project
Microsoft Icecaps
With natural language processing rapidly increasing in popularity, more and more tools have become available to the public to build large systems. Some of these tools are intended for general-purpose NLP, while others focus on…
Microsoft Research Blog
First TextWorld Problems, the competition: Using text-based games to advance capabilities of AI agents
Public competitions often help to advance the state of the art in challenging research problems. They frame a question, provide relevant data, and define evaluation metrics so that researchers across the world can work toward…
