At\u00a0Microsoft Build 2016 event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said\u00a0that chatbots, as next big thing, will have\u00a0\u201cas profound an impact as previous shifts we\u2019ve had.\u201d\u00a0The past paradigm shifts include graphical user interface, the web browser and the touchscreen. Conversations As\u00a0A platform(CAAP) has\u00a0the promise of making booking a flight or buying a new shirt as easy as sending a text message,\u00a0with the potential to make computing more\u00a0accessible to users\u00a0on mobile devices.<\/p>\n
This group has been worked on the social chat, information\u00a0& answer and dialogue system which\u00a0are three key layers of technology to build the pyramid of CAAP.\u00a0Our work includes research on query understanding, response or answer generation, context-aware ranker, knowledge-based response and answer, text-based response and answer, webpage-based response and answer. Personalization of the response and answer is also important research topic. In last\u00a0two years, this group has worked with\u00a0MS product teams on various chatbots\u00a0such as Xiaoice (in China), Rinna (Japan) and Tay (in US).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At\u00a0Microsoft Build 2016 event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said\u00a0that chatbots, as next big thing, will have\u00a0\u201cas profound an impact as previous shifts we\u2019ve had.\u201d\u00a0The past paradigm shifts include graphical user interface, the web browser and the touchscreen. Conversations As\u00a0A platform(CAAP) has\u00a0the promise of making booking a flight or buying a new shirt as easy as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13545],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-295931","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-human-language-technologies","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2014-06-01","related-publications":[296801,305843,347972,363959,379370,296762,296795,296798],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[144735],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","value":"fuwei","display_name":"Furu Wei","author_link":"Furu Wei<\/a>","is_active":false,"user_id":31830,"last_first":"Wei, Furu","people_section":0,"alias":"fuwei"},{"type":"user_nicename","value":"lecu","display_name":"Lei Cui","author_link":"Lei Cui<\/a>","is_active":false,"user_id":32631,"last_first":"Cui, Lei","people_section":0,"alias":"lecu"},{"type":"user_nicename","value":"nanya","display_name":"Nan Yang","author_link":"Nan Yang<\/a>","is_active":false,"user_id":33054,"last_first":"Yang, Nan","people_section":0,"alias":"nanya"}],"msr_research_lab":[199560],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/295931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/295931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=295931"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=295931"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=295931"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=295931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}