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.
Publication
Advances in All-Neural Speech Recognition
Event
HSCMA 2017 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft is a Gold sponsor of the Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2017) held on March 1-3, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.
Video
Procedural Language and Knowledge
Various types of how-to-knowledge are encoded in natural language instructions: from setting up a tent, to preparing a dish for dinner, and to executing biology lab experiments. These types of instructions are based on procedural…
Video
Learning Language through Interaction
Machine learning-based natural language processing systems are amazingly effective, when plentiful labeled training data exists for the task/domain of interest. Unfortunately, for broad coverage (both in task and domain) language understanding, we’re unlikely to ever…
