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.
Podcast
Not lost in translation with Arul Menezes
Episode 24, May 16, 2018 – Menezes talks about how the advent of deep learning has enabled exciting advances in machine translation, including applications for people with disabilities, and gives us an inside look at…
Microsoft Research Blog
Sounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell’s famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in…
Video
PNW PLSE Workshop: Welcome and Introductions
The PNW PLSE workshop provides an opportunity for programming languages and software engineering researchers throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet, interact, and share work in progress as well as recent results. The meeting on May…
Video
PNW PLSE Workshop: Project Everest: Theory meets Reality
The PNW PLSE workshop provides an opportunity for programming languages and software engineering researchers throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet, interact, and share work in progress as well as recent results. The meeting on May…
Video
PNW PLSE Workshop: Helping Designers Explore the Space of Layout Variations with Constraints
The PNW PLSE workshop provides an opportunity for programming languages and software engineering researchers throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet, interact, and share work in progress as well as recent results. The meeting on May…
Video
PNW PLSE Workshop: Featured Talk: Continuously Integrated Verified Cryptography
The PNW PLSE workshop provides an opportunity for programming languages and software engineering researchers throughout the Pacific Northwest to meet, interact, and share work in progress as well as recent results. The meeting on May…
Video
Connecting Vision and Language via Interpretation, Grounding and Imagination
Understanding how to model vision and language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Vision is one of the primary sensors we use to perceive the world, while language is our data structure to…
Microsoft Research Blog
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
The Machine Comprehension team at MSR-Montreal recently developed a neural mechanism for metalearning that we call conditionally shifted neurons. Conditionally shifted neurons (CSNs) adapt their activation values rapidly to new data to help neural networks…
Video
Accessibility in the AI Frontier
In the past few years, accessibility has increasingly become a focus of interest in the realm of technology. This is no more true than with the modern developments of AI Technology. However, with AI technology…
