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Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines
In a [study] published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals to detect fake news.…
SIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
| Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, and Andrey Kolobov
Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…
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…