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The story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
Adam Troy had an idea. He was spending so much time searching through old emails and attachments to prepare for meetings: Could AI help him be better prepared for meetings? Could machine learning automatically identify the most relevant emails and…
In between the lines: Broadening access to web search by understanding the needs of people with dyslexia
People with dyslexia perceive the world in different ways when it comes to the arrangement of letters and words on paper – or, these days, on web pages. Indeed, so much of modern life and accessibility to the information that…
Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
| Bhaskar Mitra
Traditionally, machine learning based approaches to information retrieval have taken the form of supervised learning-to-rank models. Recent advances in other machine learning approaches—such as adversarial learning and reinforcement learning—should find interesting new applications in future retrieval systems. At Microsoft AI…
Democratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces
| Ahmed Awadallah and Ryen W. White
Benefiting from a confluence of factors, such as service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), application program interfaces – APIs – are playing an increasingly important role in both the virtual and the physical world. For example, web services, such…