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Towards universal language embeddings
| Jianfeng Gao
Language embedding is a process of mapping symbolic natural language text (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vector representations. This is fundamental to deep learning approaches to natural language understanding (NLU). It is highly desirable to learn language…
Awards | IEEE
Jianfeng Gao elevated to IEEE Fellow class of 2019
Jianfeng Gao, Partner Research Manager, was elevated to IEEE Fellow as part of the 2019 class for contributions to machine learning for Web search and natural language processing.
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft is teaching systems to read, answer and even ask questions
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something…