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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TREC Deep Learning Track
The TREC Deep Learning Track studies information retrieval in a large training data regime. This is the case where the number of training queries with at least one positive label is at least in the…
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Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:
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BankNote-net: Open Dataset for Assistive Currency Recognition
Assistive software applications have been developed for a variety of day-to-day tasks, including currency recognition. BankNote-Net is an open dataset for assistive currency recognition.
Podcast
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of April 1, 2024
In this issue: New research helps COMET embrace African languages; FeatUp improves deep features, a computer vision research cornerstone; LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error; Benchmarking LLMs across languages and…
