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.
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Microsoft Teams: Collaborate with Any Researcher Anywhere
See how researchers from the Heart Research Institute collaborate in real-time on documents, meet online and chat with confidence their intellectual property is protected using Microsoft Teams. Save your grant funding because Microsoft Teams is…
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Microsoft Whiteboard: Digital, Freeform Canvas for Creative Collaboration
We are seeing a shift in the way people work and collaborate across spaces and locations. Designed for modern workplaces, Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can brainstorm, plan, and iterate. It…
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VERSE: Voice. Exploration. Retrieval. Search.
People with visual impairments are expert users of audio interfaces, including voice-activated virtual assistants and screen readers. Through interviews and surveys of this population, we learned that virtual assistants are convenient and accessible, but lack…
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Project Conversation Learner: Democratizing AI for Bot Development
Project Conversation Learner aims to revolutionize the way task-oriented bots are built, by applying the tenets of machine teaching to empower non-developers to create and maintain task-oriented bots. By leveraging machine learning models to drive…
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Drawiz: Making Technical Diagrams Accessible to People with Visual Impairments
We have all heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. It is particularly true in STEM fields where technical diagrams are used universally as a core construct for communicating ideas. And…
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AI-Driven Image Captioning For Inclusive Productivity
Advances in hybrid intelligence, deep learning, and related artificial intelligence techniques have provided us with a remarkable opportunity to ensure the future of work will be even more inclusive to more people than ever before.…
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The Future of Communication
Communication is the foundation on which our efforts toward accomplishing goals and tasks are built. We articulate needs and results and tell and react to stories about what we do and how we do it.…
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Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding (MT-DNN)
Multi-task learning toolkit for natural language understanding, including knowledge distillation.
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Recent Advances in Image Captioning, Image-Text Retrieval and Visual Question Answering using Scene Graph Parsing, What Next?
Creating appropriate representation of data is the key for many recent breakthroughs in both language and vision. In natural language, from the structured representations like parse trees to BERT and Transformers pretrained on large scale…
