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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Echoes in GenAI generations
In our recent PNAS paper we demonstrate that large language models produce little variation in generated narratives. Compared to those generations, a human-written narrative is usually Sui Generis, i.e. one of a kind. Or as…
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Medical Bayesian Kiosk (2010)
The Medical Bayesian Kiosk was an exploratory demonstration developed by Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz that merged advances from Microsoft Research’s Situated Interaction effort with AI-powered medical diagnosis. The system integrated multiparty conversational capabilities with…
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VeriTrail: Detect hallucination and trace provenance in AI workflows
Dasha Metropolitansky, Research Data Scientist, Microsoft Research Special Projects, introduces VeriTrail, a new method for closed-domain hallucination detection in multi-step AI workflows. Unlike prior methods, VeriTrail provides traceability: it identifies where hallucinated content was likely…
