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.
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…
Podcast
Machine reading comprehension with Dr. T.J. Hazen
The ability to read and understand unstructured text, and then answer questions about it, is a common skill among literate humans. But for machines? Not so much. At least not yet! And not if Dr.…
Tool
Microsoft Icecaps: An Open-Source Toolkit for Conversation Modeling
Microsoft Icecaps is a new open-source NLP toolkit featuring pre-trained models and an emphasis on conversational scenarios
Video
Engaging with Students and Parents in Bellevue School District in Multilingual Settings
The Bellevue School District serves nearly 22,000 students east of Seattle, WA. The rich diversity of the student body is demonstrated by the 123 countries our students come from and the 99 languages spoken across…
Event
KDD 2019 Workshop on Truth Discovery and Fact Checking: Theory and Practice
The first workshop on Truth Discovery and Fact Checking: Theory and practice will provide a forum where researchers and practitioners from academia, government and industry can share insights and identify new challenges and opportunities in…