Abstract With the rapid development of text matching and pre-training models, chatbot systems are now able to yield relevant and fluent responses but sometimes make mistakes in logic because of weak reasoning capabilities. To facilitate the research in this field,…
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Adaptive Biotechnologies transforms data stream into new immune medicine platform with Azure
Founded in 2009, Adaptive Biotechnologies is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on harnessing the inherent biology of the adaptive immune system to transform the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Adaptive was built on the premise that the adaptive immune system…
In the past few decades, the rapid progress of human industries and agriculture, the growth of the population, and harmful gases produced by human activities have caused serious air pollution and are endangering human health. In addition to causing lung diseases…
Real-time RGB-D 3D scanning has become widely used to progressively scan objects or scenes with a hand-held RGB-D camera, such as Microsoft Kinect. The depth stream from the camera is accumulated to a voxel grid that contains surface distance. The…
Awards | 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Kori Inkpen receives 2020 Lasting impact Award at CSCW
The Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and the decision is made by a committee of…
Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks
| Kevin Lin, Xiaowei Hu, and Lijuan Wang
Consider for a moment what it takes to visually identify and describe something to another person. Now imagine that the other person can’t see the object or image, so every detail matters. How do you decide what information is important…
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Microsoft says its AI can describe images ‘as well as people do’
It’s a new milestone for AI that could genuinely help the visually impaired. Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI.
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Apps can now narrate what they see in the world as well as people do
How would you leverage technology capable of generating natural language image descriptions that are, in many cases, just as good or better than what a human could produce? What if that capability is just one cloud API call away? Would…
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What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do
Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. The breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone in Microsoft’s push to make…