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.
Event
EMNLP 2016 and Microsoft Research
This year’s EMNLP 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing was held November 1–5, 2016 in Austin, Texas, USA.
Tool
Visual Question Generation dataset
We introduce this dataset in order to support the novel task of Visual Question Generation (VQG), where, given an image, the system should ‘ask a natural and engaging question’. This dataset can be used to…
Event
AMTA 2016 and Microsoft Research
Several Microsoft researchers were in attendance and presented at AMTA 2016 in Austin, Texas, on October 28 – November 1, 2016. You can learn more about our research presented at AMTA 2016 via the Accepted…
Video
A Translation NGO’s View on Language Technology Trends
Mirko will present the work of Translators without Borders (TWB) and the role language technology they foresee to play for their work in the future. In his talk, he will highlight on the one hand…
Event
ASSETS 2016 and Microsoft Research
The ASSETS conference explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. ASSETS is the premier forum for presenting innovative research on mainstream and specialized…
Publication
Reading and Learning Smartfonts
Event
ACM MM 2016 and Microsoft Research
It was our pleasure to be part of the ACM Multimedia Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on October 15-19, 2016. Microsoft was a Bronze sponsor and proud to have several researchers attend and present at…