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.
Event
Interspeech 2017 Special Session: Speech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities
Speech technologies exist for many high resource languages, and attempts are being made to reach the next billion users by building resources and systems for many more languages. In the past, the main focus of…
Video
Analyzing the Entire Program: Applying Natural Language Processing to Software Engineering
A powerful, but limited, way to view software is as source code alone. Mathematical techniques, such as abstract interpretation and model checking, can indicate whether the program satisfies a formal specification. But, where does the…
Project
Human Parity in Speech Recognition
This ongoing project aims to drive the state of the art in speech recognition toward matching, and ultimately surpassing, humans, with a focus on unconstrained conversational speech. The goal is a moving target as the…
Tool
Question Sequences for Conversational Question Answering
The SQA dataset was created to explore the task of answering sequences of inter-related questions on HTML tables. It has 6,066 sequences with 17,553 questions in total.
Tool
MSR FastRDFStore Package – Data Release
This data release is part of the MSR FastRDFStore Package (https://github.com/Microsoft/FastRDFStore/ (opens in new tab)) and includes the last dump of Freebase, as well as the processed version ready to load directly into FastRDFStore.
Project
Calendar.help
Calendar.help is a service that allows people to delegate their scheduling tasks to their own virtual scheduling assistant.