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.
Publication
Discriminative Learning in Speech Recognition
Video
(Computational) Linguistics and the Web: Hot research questions
I’ve spent the last ten years trying to feed technologies and insights from Linguistics and Computational Linguistics into the infrastructure of the Web. In this talk I’ll give brief but intense introductions to four areas…
Tool
Impact of Controlled Language on Machine-Translation Quality and Post-Editing Efforts
Results from experiments conducted by Microsoft Research’s Machine Translation Incubation Team to investigate the impact of using good English (controlled language) on post-editing productivity—as well as on the overall quality of our statistical machine-translation system.