Human language technologies
Advancing how machines understand and generate human language across speech, text, and translation.
UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning
AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models.
AI for Low-Resource Languages
< AI for Good Lab Language is more than communication—it sustains culture, identity, and opportunity. Yet most of the world’s languages remain underrepresented in today’s AI systems because they have limited digital content, few high-quality…
Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.
BYOL: Bring Your Own Language into LLMs
Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in Low-resource Settings
Translating from high-resource to low-resource languages like Emakhuwa remains a challenge due to limited parallel data, orthographic variation, and frequent loanwords and code-switching. In this talk Felermino will discuss how to apply lexicon-guided neural machine…
