Machine Translation Advancements and Microsoft Translator Research

Machine Translation at Microsoft Research

This content provides an overview of Microsoft's research and development in the field of Machine Translation, primarily focusing on the advancements and applications of Microsoft Translator. It highlights various aspects of their work, including research areas, publications, projects, and news related to their machine translation efforts.

Key Research Areas:

The research is categorized into several domains:

• Intelligence:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Audio & Acoustics
  • Computer Vision
  • Graphics & Multimedia
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human Language Technologies
  • Information Retrieval & Search

• Systems:

  • Data Platforms & Analytics
  • Hardware & Devices
  • Programming Languages & Software Engineering
  • Quantum Computing
  • Security, Privacy, & Cryptography
  • Systems & Networking

• Theory:

  • Algorithms
  • Mathematics

• Other Sciences:

  • Ecology & Environment
  • Economics
  • Medical, Health, & Genomics
  • Social Sciences
  • Technology for Emerging Markets

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Programs and Events:

Information on academic programs, events, and conferences related to their research.

Careers:

Opportunities to join Microsoft's research teams.

People:

Details about the researchers and their contributions, including emeritus programs and news.

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Resources for staying updated on Microsoft Research, including:

• Microsoft Research Blog
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• Microsoft Research Newsletter

Labs and Locations:

Microsoft Research has a global presence with various labs focusing on specific areas:

• Microsoft Research Labs: AI4Science, AI Frontiers, Health Futures, Asia-Pacific, Cambridge, India, Montreal, New England, New York City, Redmond.
• Other Labs/Locations: Applied Sciences Group, Mixed Reality & AI Cambridge, Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab.

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• Global: Security, Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Windows 365.
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Machine Translation Group:

The content specifically highlights the Machine Translation group, detailing:

• Overview: Links to the group's page, blogs, people, publications, downloads, videos, projects, and news.
• News and Updates: A feed of recent news and blog posts related to machine translation.

Key News and Blog Posts:

• Research Focus: Week of November 28, 2022: Highlights papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022, focusing on AI and Neural Information Processing Systems.
• Bringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation: Discusses advancements in translating languages with limited data and spoken dialects.
• Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator: Introduces a feature allowing users to customize NMT systems for text and speech translation.
• Bringing AI translation to edge devices with Microsoft Translator: Focuses on on-device translation capabilities, particularly with Huawei Mate 10.
• Microsoft and Huawei deliver Full Neural On-device Translations: Collaboration for on-device neural machine translation.
• Microsoft Translator erodes language barrier for in-person conversations: Technology for real-time, in-person translation.
• Microsoft Translator launching Neural Network based translations for all its speech languages: Adoption of neural networks for all speech translation services.
• Introducing Russian Speech Translation for Microsoft Translator: Expansion of speech translation to include Russian.
• Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the world’s first Speech Translation API: Introduction of a speech-to-speech translation API.

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