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.
Project
Meeting Intelligence: Task Rephrasing
Exploratory project to ‘decontextualize’ tasks and to-do items identified in meeting transcriptions, and rewrite each of them in a single sentence to appear in a separate to-do list. We build upon pretrained seq2seq transformer models,…
Tool
Odia Speech Data and Model
As part of this release, Navana Tech and Microsoft Research India are open-sourcing 1648 hours of validated Odia speech dataset and a baseline model for Odia speech recognition. The speech dataset consists of recordings in…
Tool
LiST (Lite Self-Training)
We present a new method LiST for efficient fine-tuning of large pre-trained language models (PLMs) in few-shot learning settings. LiST significantly improves over recent methods that adopt prompt fine-tuning using two key techniques. The first…