The venerable Art Institute of Chicago is now welcoming visitors again after being closed for much of last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Amazon's ...

Editor's note: the TaskBot Challenge teams have been selected, you can learn more about them here.Amazon today announced that it is launching a new Alexa ...

Amazon recently announced that it is launching a new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, in which university teams will compete to develop agents that assist ...

Practical question-answering systems often use a technique called answer selection. Given a question — say, “When was Serena Williams born?” — they perform ...

Language models, which encode the probabilities of particular sequences of words, have been much in the news lately for their almost uncanny ability to ...

Emine Yilmaz, an Amazon Scholar and a professor of computer science at University College London, has for years been intimately involved with the European ...

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 difficult ...

Data-to-text generation converts information from a structured format such as a table into natural language. This allows structured information to be read ...

On April 22, senior principal applied scientist Spyros Matsoukas joined principal Alexa evangelist Jeff Blankenburg on Alexa & Friends to discuss his ...

(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles Amazon Science is publishing related to the science behind products and services from companies ...