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
Accommodation of Conversational Code-Choice
Event
Interspeech 2018 Special Session: Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages
In keeping with the Interspeech 2018 theme of ‘Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies’, we are organizing a special session and challenge on speech recognition for low resource languages. Most languages in the world lack…
Publication
N-gram Smoothing on Expected Fractional Counts
Tool
Filling the Blanks for Mad Libs
This data contains our custom Mad Libs that accompany the EMNLP 2017 paper called “Filling the Blanks for Mad Libs Humor”. There are 50 Mad Libs in total. For each, we provide our original Mad…
Microsoft Research Blog
Bringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
Machine translation has become a crucial component in the advancing of global communication. Millions of people are using online translation systems and mobile applications to communicate across language barriers. Machine translation has made rapid advances…
