Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
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AI-Powered Speech Translation
Microsoft Translator is the first end-to-end speech translation solution optimized for real-life conversations (vs. simple human to machine commands) available on the market. It’s one of the services in Microsoft’s portfolio of artificial intelligence technologies…
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Microsoft @ LISA 2017
Microsoft is a silver sponsor of LISA17, the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The program will address the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, curated…
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Microsoft Research @ HCOMP 2017
We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…
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Microsoft Research @ SPLASH 2017
We are excited to be participating in SPLASH 2017, the ACM SIGPLAN conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and…
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Language Model Challenge (LMChallenge)
Language modelling is a key component of many NLP systems, but comparing language models (LMs) in a fair way can be difficult. LM Challenge is a small, cross platform Python library for evaluating and investigating…
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Microsoft Speech Language Translation (MSLT) Corpus
The Microsoft Speech Language Translation Corpus release contains conversational, bilingual speech test and tuning data for English, Chinese, and Japanese collected by Microsoft Research. The package includes audio data, transcripts, and translations and allows end-to-end…