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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Research Demo on Children’s Stories and CNN News
Most of us read thousands of documents throughout our lives. Along with observation and communication, reading is one of the primary ways we learn. Almost all of human knowledge has been written down in some…
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Game of Thrones: Marcy Demo
A demonstration of a deep learning bot (“Marcy”) answering reading comprehension questions about a plot summary of “Game of Thrones” plot summary.
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Machine Reading Comprehension Demo
In this video we demonstrate how our technology can be used to read excerpts from books such as Harry Potter and more complex documents such as legal NDAs and medical journals.
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Chinook Middle School is breaking the language barrier with Microsoft Translator
With students from all over the world, the Bellevue School District is an incredibly diverse district. More than 80 languages are spoken, with over 30% of students speaking a first language other than English. A…
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Contextual Representation for Natural Language Understanding
Neural Machine Translation provides very useful representation for the language in context. The sentences and words representation leaned from Neural Machine translation models can be efficiently used to boost the performance of many Natural Language…
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Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
Machine translation has become a crucial component for enabling global communication. Millions of people are using online translation systems and mobile applications to communicate across language barriers. Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent…
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Neural Machine Translation of Spoken-Dialects
Spoken language translation is usually limited by the non-availability of the parallel data. We generate synthetic data for Neural Machine Translation of Spoken-Dialects. We introduce a novel approach to generate synthetic data for training Neural…
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Neural Machine Translation
We are using Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to achieve state-of-the-art translation performance. We are working on large scale / real-time translation systems to support high quality translation for various languages. We used LSTM Sequence-to-Sequence models.…
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Interspeech 2018 Special Session: Speech Techologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities
Speech technologies exist for many high resource languages, and attempts are being made to reach the next billion users by building resources and systems for many more languages. Multilingual communities pose many challenges for the…