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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Senior Applied Scientist
Conversational commerce introduces challenges that differ from traditional web shopping. Preferences emerge through dialogue, expectations for accuracy and trust are high, and systems must reason over context and frequently changing commerce data. Microsoft Copilot is…
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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages
Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far exceeding the coverage of any other Bantu language. This prominence…