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
Ranking Passages for Argument Convincingness
Tool
Tookits for Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge
ConvLab is an open-source multi-domain end-to-end dialog system platform, aiming to enable researchers to quickly set up experiments with reusable components and compare a large set of different approaches, ranging from conventional pipeline systems to…
Tool
MetaLWOz: A Dataset of Multi-Domain Dialogues for the Fast Adaptation of Conversation Models
We introduce the Meta-Learning Wizard of Oz (MetaLWOz) dialogue dataset for developing fast adaptation methods for conversation models. This data can be used to train task-oriented dialogue models, specifically to develop methods to quickly simulate…
Event
Microsoft at ACL 2019
Microsoft is excited to be a Diamond sponsor of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). We will have over 50 Microsoft attendees present at the conference. Stop by our booth…
Microsoft Research Blog
Analyzing ambiguity and word embeddings by probing semantic classes
Word embeddings have had a big impact on many applications in natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval. It is, therefore, crucial to open the blackbox and understand their meaning representation. We propose probing tasks…
