Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
Getting Started with TextWorld
TextWorld is a text-based game generator and sandbox learning environment for reinforcement learning agents. Watch this video to get started with using TextWorld! Learn more about the competition at aka.ms/textworld-challenge
Towards universal language embeddings
Language embedding is a process of mapping symbolic natural language text (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vector representations. This is fundamental to deep learning approaches to natural language understanding (NLU). It is…
Xbox Avatars Descriptions
We introduce a new corpus of descriptions of Xbox avatars created by actual gamers. Each avatar is specified by 19 attributes, including clothing and body type, allowing for more than 10^20 possibilities. Using Amazon Mechanical…