Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Xbox Avatars Descriptions
We introduce a new corpus of descriptions of Xbox avatars created by actual gamers. Each avatar is specified by 19 attributes, including clothing and body type, allowing for more than 10^20 possibilities. Using Amazon Mechanical…
SigmaDolphin
Building a computer system to automatically solve math word problems written in natural language. SigmaDolphin is a project initiated in early 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, with the primary goal of building a computer intelligent…
Multi-Domain Task-Completion Dialog Challenge
As part of the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC8), Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University are hosting a track intended to foster progress in two important aspects of dialog systems: dialog complexity and scaling to…
Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
Episode 64, February 20, 2019 – Dr. Layla El Asri talks about the particular challenges she and other scientists face in building sophisticated dialogue systems that lay the foundation for talking machines. She also explains…
Email overload: Using machine learning to manage messages, commitments
As email continues to be not only an important means of communication but also an official record of information and a tool for managing tasks, schedules, and collaborations, making sense of everything moving in and…
Cognitive Services Labs in action – Project Personality Chat: Build 2018
Easily build distinctive conversational bots, with zero editorial effort using Project Personality Chat. Personality Chat enhances your bot’s conversational capabilities by handling small talk, in line with a chosen personality. Choose a personality that aligns…
