{"id":835921,"date":"2022-05-05T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-group&#038;p=835921"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:59:13","slug":"stca-semantics-and-knowledge-team","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/stca-semantics-and-knowledge-team\/","title":{"rendered":"STCA Semantics and Knowledge Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background- card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner-.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"abstract multi-colored bubbles on a purple background\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner-.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--1024x385.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--1536x577.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--1600x600.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/ICLR-Banner--240x90.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 id=\"stca-semantics-and-knowledge-team\">STCA Semantics and Knowledge Team<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The STCA Semantics and Knowledge Team at Microsoft STCA S+D Group advances research and innovation in areas such as information retrieval, natural language processing, and multimodal. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to get information efficiently and effectively by driving the advance of cutting-edge AI techniques and its application on WebXT services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent topics of our work covers: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Natural language understanding and generation. Some ongoing works are <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2203.08517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TegTok<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2201.12093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PCL<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2021.naacl-main.465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Multilingual Question Answering<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/9528908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MGRC<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, etc.<\/li><li>Neural symbolic computing. We are developing next-generation architectures to bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with&nbsp. Some ongoing projects are <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2110.06533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EventBERT<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2107.13077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NRETM<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3442381.3450126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Procedural Text Understanding<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, etc.<\/li><li>Few-shot learning and data augmentation. Some ongoing works are <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2202.12499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PromDA<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past three years, our group has published dozens of research works at top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, KDD, WWW, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, IJCAI, and WSDM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are hiring! We are looking for highly qualified and motivated candidates for Intern, Post Doc, and Researcher positions working in natural language processing, information retrieval, and related areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STCA Semantics and Knowledge Team at Microsoft STCA S+D Group advances research and innovation in areas such as information retrieval, natural language processing, and multimodal. 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