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.
Video
Microsoft Translator Hub: Discussion of BLEU Score
Chris Wendt interviews Dr. Will Lewis to get a deeper insight into automatic scoring of customized machine translation systems. Microsoft Translator Hub & Bing Translator use an automatic scoring mechanism known as BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation…
Microsoft Research Blog
How technology can bridge language gaps
Speech-to-speech translation promises to help connect our world Among the futuristic gadgets in the classic TV show Star Trek, none seemed more useful than the universal translator, a handheld gizmo that helped foster understanding among intergalactic…
Publication
A Hybrid Approach for Arabic Diacritization
Project
Spoken Language Understanding
Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between the areas of speech processing and natural language processing. The term spoken language understanding has largely been coined for targeted understanding of human speech directed…