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Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person.
RAVEN: Reducing Power Consumption of Mobile Games without Compromising User Experience
| Miran Lee and Yunxin Liu
In the last decade, mobile gaming has grown into a huge industry. According to Newzoo, the global mobile games market will reach $46.1 billion in 2017, a 19.4% increase from the year before. Players can enjoy amazing gaming experience on…
Pearson and Microsoft Research Asia Partner to Empower Personalized Learning with AI technologies
Beijing, Jan 31, 2018, Pearson and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) jointly announced that they have signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement after successfully launching Longman English+, an English language learning application last year.
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Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person
With machine reading comprehension, researchers say computers also would be able to quickly parse through information found in books and documents and provide people with the information they need most in an easily understandable way.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a technology to help computer process or understand human languages. It includes: Syntactic-semantic Analysis: Conduct word segmentation, the tagging of parts of speech, named entity recognition and linking, syntactic analysis, semantic role recognition, and polysemy…
The amount of today’s rich media content is unprecedented. Every second, people are creating and sharing enormous amounts of information, and particularly content that includes complex image and text information. Among these contents, the combination of text and images has…
By John Roach If you really want to learn to speak a foreign language, everyone knows that practice is essential. The challenge is to find someone with the time, patience and skill to help you practice pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.…
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Collaborative Research Program is a vital platform for faculty members in Asia working together with MSRA researchers on mutually interested topics. We aspire to foster talents and establish Microsoft as a valuable research and technology partner…
First established in the 1950s, China’s Friendship Awards honor the achievements of foreign experts in the country’s economic and social progress. Beijing’s municipal government established the Great Wall Friendship Award in 1999, and it remains the highest award that foreign…