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Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content | Video

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Insights into the Challenges and Opportunities of Large Multi-Modal Models for Blind and Low Vision Users: CLIP

Project GraphRAG | LLM-Derived Knowledge Graphs

Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 3 | panel discussion

PARIKSHA: A Scalable, Democratic, Transparent Evaluation Platform for Assessing Indic Large Language Models

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An End-to-End Conversational Style Matching Agent

Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Rens Hoegen, Deepali Aneja

IVA ’19 | July 2019

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ConvLab: Multi-Domain End-to-End Dialog System Platform

Sungjin Lee, Qi Zhu, Ryuichi Takanobu, Zheng Zhang, Yaoqin Zhang, Xiang Li, Jinchao Li, Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Minlie Huang, Jianfeng Gao

Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations | July 2019

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LiveBot: Generating Live Video Comments Based on Visual and Textual Contexts

Shuming Ma, Lei Cui, Damai Dai, Furu Wei, Xu Sun

AAAI 2019 | July 2019

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End-to-End ASR for Code-switched Hindi-English Speech

Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Basil Abraham, Sunayana Sitaram, Rupesh K. Mehta, Preethi Jyothi

arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09426 | June 2019

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Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation

Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Weng, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang

CVPR 2019 | June 2019

Best Student Paper Award in CVPR 2019.

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The Knowref Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution

Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Hannes Schulz, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

ACL 2019 | June 2019

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MASS: Masked Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Language Generation

Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Jianfeng Lu, Tie-Yan Liu

ICML 2019 | June 2019

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Probing for Semantic Classes: Diagnosing the Meaning Content of Word Embeddings

Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Katharina Kann, T. J. Hazen, Eneko Agirre, Hinrich Schütze

ACL 2019 | June 2019

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Diversifying Reply Suggestions using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder

Budhaditya Deb, Peter Bailey, Milad Shokouhi

NAACL-HLT 2019 | June 2019

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Microsoft at NAACL 2019

June 2, 2019 – June 7, 2019 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of NAACL-HLT 2019. Over 30 of our researchers are at the conference. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research…

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