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 talk: The science behind semantic search: How AI from Microsoft Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
Azure Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. As part of our AI at…
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Research talk: Search, summarization, and sensemaking
Natural language processing (NLP) has undergone head-spinning advances over the last 5–10 years. At the same time, user interfaces for search have remained somewhat static. Has NLP advanced enough to more actively aid searchers in the sensemaking…
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Research talk: Automating and Optimizing IT Operations Management with AI
The vision of self-aware, self-healing, and self-managing Information Technology (IT) systems has remained elusive till recently. Recent advancements in Cloud computing, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, are…
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Research talk: Is phrase retrieval all we need?
DensePhrases is an extractive phrase-search tool based on natural language input that achieves dense retrieval of billion-scale phrases with extreme runtime efficiency. In this talk, Assistant Professor Danqi Chen of Princeton University will highlight some…
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Research talk: Extracting pragmatics from content interactions to improve enterprise recommendations
Data trails, recording the way that people interact with content and with each other in an enterprise, are a source of linguistic pragmatics (cues to language meaning implied by social interactions) that can be used…
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Panel: Maximizing benefits and minimizing harms with language technologies
Language is one of the main ways in which people understand and construct the social world. Current language technologies can contribute positively to this process—by challenging existing power dynamics, or negatively—by reproducing or exacerbating existing…
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Lightning talks: Advances in fairness in AI: From research to practice
Over the past few years, we’ve seen that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) provide us with new opportunities, but they also raise new challenges. Most notably, these challenges have highlighted the various ways…
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Research talk: IGLU: Interactive grounded language understanding in a collaborative environment
Human intelligence has the remarkable ability to quickly adapt to new tasks and environments. Starting from a very young age, humans acquire new skills and learn how to solve new tasks by either imitating others’…
