A Conversation with Bill Gates Hosted by Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research had the pleasure of hosting Bill Gates at this year’s Faculty Summit for a conversation on the Future Of Work with Eric Horvitz. They touched on the benefits of education, advancements in the…
Vision-and-Dialog Navigation
Dialog-enabled smart assistants, which communicate via natural language and occupy human homes, have seen widespread adoption in recent years. These systems can communicate information, but do not manipulate objects or move themselves. By contrast, manipulation-capable…
The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: a resource for training and evaluating common sense in AI
AI has made major strides in the last decade, from beating the world champion of Go, to learning how to program, to telling fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude…
Demonstration of Probabilistic Predicates
Demo system for the paper titled “Interactive Demonstration of Probabilistic Predicates” at SIGMOD18.
Multilingual Model Transfer
In this project we develop new deep learning models for bootstrapping language understanding models for languages with no labeled data using labeled data from other languages.
SIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines,…