{"id":663420,"date":"2020-06-18T23:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=663420"},"modified":"2020-10-02T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T02:48:58","slug":"universal-question-answering-in-100-languages","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/universal-question-answering-in-100-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Question Answering in 100+ Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question and Answering (QnA)<\/strong> aims to automatically answer natural language questions posed by human.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by the goal of providing Universal QnA experience to all Bing users,\u00a0 we built an universal QnA ranking pipeline from scratch based on a dozens of cross lingual technologies.<\/p>\n<p>With only training data in English language, we manage to ship the QnA feature to <strong>100+ languages and 200+ markets\/regions<\/strong> in very short term.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bing.com\/BingBlogs\/media\/SearchQualityInsights\/2020\/Picture3.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Example Cases:<\/h4>\n<p>Arabic:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-668364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ar-qna-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ar-qna-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ar-qna-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ar-qna-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ar-qna.png 1407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Norwegian:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-668367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nb-qna-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nb-qna-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nb-qna-1024x643.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nb-qna-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nb-qna.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-668370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nl-qna-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nl-qna-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nl-qna-1024x705.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nl-qna-768x529.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/nl-qna.png 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-671604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ru-list-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ru-list-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/ru-list.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Telugu:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-671598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/telugu-case-300x126.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/telugu-case-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/telugu-case-768x323.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/telugu-case-665x280.png 665w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/telugu-case.png 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frisian:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-671601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/fy-case-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/06\/fy-case-300x217.png 300w, 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https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/05\/flags.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provide universal Question Answering experiment to hundreds of millions of users in 100+ languages, 200+ markets\/ regions,  using cuttting edge cross lingual deep learning technologies. 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