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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Detection of Aggressive Behaviour on Social Media
As the interaction over the web has increased, incidents of aggression and related events like trolling, cyberbullying, flaming, hate speech, etc. too have increased manifold across the globe. While most of these behaviours like bullying…
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Making Voicebots Work for Accents
Voice-driven automated agents such as personal assistants are becoming increasingly popular. However, in a multilingual and multi-cultural country like India, deploying such agents to engage with large sections of the population is highly challenging. A…
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Ethnography for Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to ethnography for Artificial Intelligence as well as conversational analysis and its relevance to AI.
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Fairness in Machine Learning
Machine learning is increasingly being adopted by various domains: governments, credit, recruiting, advertising, and many others. Fairness and equality are critical aspects, especially in light of anti-discriminatory laws in these domains. Opaque machine learning models:…
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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…
Microsoft Research Blog
A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and…
