The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition is focused on university...
In a keynote talk at the 2019 re:MARS Conference, Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, talked about how the company was built by computer...
Kathleen McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild professor of computer science at Columbia University, and the founding director of the school’s Data Science Institute. McKeown...
Matthias Seeger, a principal applied scientist in Amazon’s Berlin office, and three coauthors have received the ICML 2020 test of time award for a paper from...
Deep learning has been highly successful for natural-language-processing tasks, like interpreting commands on Alexa. But it’s been less successful for information retrieval tasks, like product discovery...
The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is, according to Google Scholar’s rankings, the preeminent conference on computational linguistics, or the scientific study...
The AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) aims to advance machine learning (ML) by funding innovative research and open-source projects, training students, and providing researchers with...
A year ago, Amazon and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $20 million collaboration to fund academic research on fairness in AI over a three-year...
Data breaches have seemingly become part of everyday digital life. In the past few years many large financial services firms, among others, have been hit with...
SageMaker is a service from Amazon Web Services that lets customers quickly and easily build machine learning models for deployment in the cloud. It includes a...