Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Neural Phrase-Based Machine Translation
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Synthesizing Program Input Grammars
Microsoft Research Blog
Researchers develop new visual intelligence techniques to boost smart home security
By Kangping Liu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Imagine when you leave your house or apartment that a smart home security system can automatically “look after” your home, giving you real-time notices about…
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Conversational Systems Group
Advancing the state-of-the-art in human-computer conversation, through work on dialog management, dialog state tracking, user modeling, language understanding, and language generation.
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Computational Pragmatics
Defining pragmatics has not been easy. We discuss the major themes that have been dealt with in the field: The macro perspective: Speech Act Theory The micro perspective: Cooperative Principles and Implicature Merging the macro…
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Divide and conquer: How Microsoft researchers used AI to master Ms. Pac-Man
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications for teaching…
Microsoft Research Blog
Hybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) Achieving super-human performance on Ms. Pac-Man
Games are popular as a test-bed for new machine learning techniques because they can be very challenging and allow for easy analysis of new learning techniques in a controlled environment. For reinforcement learning, where the…
