Publication
Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Project
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…
Podcast
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…
Microsoft Research Blog
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…
Publication
Zero-Resource Multilingual Model Transfer
Video
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…
Microsoft Research Blog
Guidelines for human-AI interaction design
The increasing availability and accuracy of AI has stimulated uses of AI technologies in mainstream user-facing applications and services. Along with opportunities for infusing valuable AI services in a wide range of products come challenges…
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