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.
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Recent Advances in Image Captioning, Image-Text Retrieval and Visual Question Answering using Scene Graph Parsing, What Next?
Creating appropriate representation of data is the key for many recent breakthroughs in both language and vision. In natural language, from the structured representations like parse trees to BERT and Transformers pretrained on large scale…
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Bidirectionally transformed strings
The bistring library provides non-destructive versions of common string processing operations like normalization, case folding, and find/replace. Each bistring remembers the original string, and how its substrings map to substrings of the modified version.
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DSTC7-Task2 dataset
Scripts to generate the knowledge-grounded conversation dataset. First used for DSTC7-Task2 challenge.
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Fireside Chat with Christopher Manning
Christopher Manning is a Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University. His Ph.D. is from Stanford in 1995, and he held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Sydney before…
