If two people are talking in a noisy environment, and one doesn’t hear the other clearly or doesn’t quite understand what the other person meant, the...
As the world has become more connected, and computing has permeated our surroundings, a new AI paradigm is emerging: ambient intelligence. In this paradigm, our environment...
Starting on Dec. 6, we will open the winter 2022 call for proposals for Amazon Research Awards (ARA) for Alexa Fairness in AI. The deadline for...
Product retrieval systems, like the one in the Amazon Store, often use the text of product reviews to improve the results of queries. But such systems...
Of the 23 papers that Amazon researchers are presenting at next week’s Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the majority concentrate on two...
Amazon today announced it is launching a new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a competition focused on helping advance development of next-generation virtual assistants that will assist...
In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a...
On November 10, at the fourth Fact Extraction and Verification workshop (FEVER), we will be announcing the winners of the third fact verification challenge in the...
As natural-language processing (NLP) has become more integral to our daily lives, the ability to accurately evaluate NLP models has grown in importance. Deployed commercial NLP...
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) starts next week, and as Alexa principal research scientist Ariya Rastrow explained last year, it casts a...