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.
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…
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Fundamentals of User Studies
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
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Automatic Speech Recognition – An Overview
An overview of how Automatic Speech Recognition systems work and some of the challenges.
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Spoken Dialogue Systems – Personal Assistants and Non-Task Oriented Systems
Part 2 of Alan W Black’s Spoken Dialogue Systems talk based on lectures he gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Spoken Dialog Systems – Task Oriented Systems
Tutorial on what actual dialog systems are like and the problems we have with them, based on lectures Alan gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Machine Learning from Verbal Instruction
Unlike traditional machine learning methods, humans often learn from natural language instruction. As users become increasingly accustomed to interacting with computer devices using speech, their interest in instructing these devices in natural language is likely…
Microsoft Research Blog
Advancing machine comprehension with question generation
Microsoft Research Montreal lab’s vision is to create machines that can comprehend, reason and communicate with humans. We see a future where humans interact with machines just as they would with another human. We could…
