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Differential privacy provides a way to quantify the privacy risks posed by aggregate statistics based on private data. One of its key ideas is that adding...
COVID-19 has cost us precious lives and served a harsh reminder that so much more needs to be done to prepare for unforeseen events. In these...
Next week, we will open the spring 2021 call for proposals for Amazon Research Awards (ARA) related to two research areas: Alexa Fairness in AI, and...
One of the first things a voice agent like Alexa does when receiving a new instruction is to classify its intent — playing music, getting the weather, turning...
Earlier this month at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling), we were honored to receive the best-paper award in the industry track for our paper “Leveraging user...
More and more, interactions with Alexa involve multiturn dialogues, which Alexa uses to fill out the details of a request or coordinate multiple skills. Dialogue models, like all...
At this year’s Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Julia Hirschberg, an Amazon Scholar and a professor of computer science at Columbia University, was one...
Interspeech is a technical conference focused on speech processing and application, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories...
Bandit problems are problems in which an agent interacting with the environment tries to simultaneously maximize some reward and learn how to maximize that reward. The...
Today in Seattle, Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices, unveiled the latest lineup of products and services from his organization. During the presentation, Rohit...