In the past few weeks, Amazon announced versions of Alexa in three new languages: Hindi, U.S. Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.Like all new-language ...

This year at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural-Language Processing (EMNLP), we will cohost the Second Workshop on Fact Extraction and ...

In the past year, we’ve published several papers demonstrating that a natural-language-understanding model trained in one language, then re-trained in ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Echo, so in a talk I gave yesterday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, I looked at how far Alexa has ...

This year at the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Workshop, Alexa researchers have two papers about training machine learning ...

Product search algorithms, like the ones that help customers place orders through Alexa, aim at returning the products that are most relevant to users’ ...

In 2018, Amazon launched a feature in the U.S. that enables Alexa to whisper back when whispered to, a feature that was expanded to all Alexa locales in ...

Most of the major advances in artificial intelligence in the past decade, in both industry and academia, have been the result of supervised deep learning, ...

Amazon prides itself on being the most customer-centric company on earth. That means maintaining the highest possible standards of both security and privacy ...

Amazon has strong ties to the Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) conference, which starts next week in Houston. Amazon is a gold sponsor of the conference, ...