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
Commonsense Causal Reasoning between Short Texts
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft fellowship program supports women in computing
By Susan Dumais, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Women are woefully under-represented in computing-related fields. Despite earning more than half of all baccalaureate degrees throughout North America, women make up fewer than 20 percent of graduates…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing,…
Video
Faculty Summit 2016 – Machine Reading for Science and Society
Machine reading automates knowledge extraction from text. Traditional machine learning methods are hindered by the scarcity of annotated examples, which motivates the development of modern approaches that leverage “free lunches” such as existing ontologies and…
Publication
Analyzing and Predicting Task Reminders
Project
JointSLU: Joint Semantic Frame Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding
Sequence-to-sequence deep learning has recently emerged as a new paradigm in supervised learning for spoken language understanding. However, most of the previous studies explored this framework for building single domain models for each task, such…
Project
Project Melange
The goal of Project Mélange is to understand the uses of and build tools around code-mixing, analyze and understand code-switching behavior, and equip speech and language processing systems with the capabilities of processing, understanding and…