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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Found in Translation: Achieving Human Parity on Chinese to English News Translation
Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. In this talk we describe recent advances of Microsoft’s machine translation system using Neural Machine Translation that lead to achieving a new state-of-the-art, and achieving human…
Microsoft Research Blog
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator…
Publication
EventWiki: A Knowledge Base of Major Events
Microsoft Research Blog
Boundary-seeking GANs: A new method for adversarial generation of discrete data
Generative models are an important subset of machine learning goals and tasks that require realistic and statistically accurate generation of target data. Among all available generative models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged recently as…
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NW-NLP 2018: Semantic Matching Against a Corpus: New Applications and Methods, Synthetic and Natural Noise Both Break Neural Machine Translation, and Syntactic Scaffolds for Semantic Structures
The fifth Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held on Friday April 27, 2018, in Redmond, WA. We accepted abstracts and papers on all aspects of natural language text and speech processing,…
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NW-NLP 2018: Ben Taskar Invited Talk; Learning and Reasoning about the World using Language
The fifth Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018, in Redmond, WA. We accepted abstracts and papers on all aspects of natural language text and speech processing,…
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NW-NLP 2018: Compositional Language Modeling for Icon-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Keep your bearings: Lightly-supervised Information Extraction with Ladder Networks that avoids Semantic Drift, and more.
The fifth Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018, in Redmond, WA. We accepted abstracts and papers on all aspects of natural language text and speech processing,…
