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Autonomous soaring – AI on the fly
| Andrey Kolobov
The past few years have seen tremendous progress in reinforcement learning (RL). From complex games to robotic object manipulation, RL has qualitatively advanced the state of the art. However, modern RL techniques require a lot for success: a largely deterministic…
Minimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
| Benjamin Fish
Lots of important information, including job openings and other kinds of advertising, are often transmitted by word-of-mouth in online settings. For example, social networks like LinkedIn are increasingly used as a way of spreading information about job opportunities, which can…
New Advancements in Spoken Language Processing
| Xuedong Huang
Deep learning algorithms, supported by the availability of powerful Azure computing infrastructure and massive training data, constitutes the most significant driving force in our AI evolution journey. In the past three years, Microsoft reached several historical AI milestones being the…
微软机器阅读理解系统性能升级，刷新CoQA对话式问答挑战赛纪录
近日，由微软亚洲研究院自然语言处理组与微软雷德蒙语音对话组研究员组成的团队，在斯坦福大学发起的对话式问答挑战赛CoQA（Conversational Question Answering Challenge）中荣登榜首，成为目前排行榜上唯一一个模型分数超过人类分数的团队。 CoQA是由关于不同领域文章的一组组对话式问答构成的大型数据集，要求机器对文本进行阅读理解，然后对一系列相互关联的问题作出回答...
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Microsoft’s Conversation Transcription demo wows as new hardware revealed
Microsoft has figured out real-time conversation transcription, revealing a new Azure-integrated conical reference design speaker along with a way to turn every phone and laptop in a meeting into an ad-hoc voice recognition array.
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Minimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
How can we spread information to a large number of people on a budget while minimizing the gap in access between the highly connected people in the network and the poorly connected people?
Beyond spell checkers: Enhancing the editing process with deep learning
| Miltos Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, and Alex Gaunt
“Here’s my conference paper—what do you think?” After hours of agonizing over words and illustrations, sharing a draft document is a moment of great pride. All too often, this is shortly followed by embarrassment when your colleague gets back to…
Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational
A team of researchers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and the Speech Dialog Research Group at Microsoft Redmond are currently leading in the Conversational Question Answering (CoQA) Challenge organized by Stanford University. In…