Earlier this spring, Amazon notified grant applicants that they were recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards, a grant program that provides up to ...

Emine Yilmaz is a computer science professor at the University College London (UCL) and a faculty fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her research ...

Bandit problems are problems in which an agent interacting with the environment tries to simultaneously maximize some reward and learn how to maximize that ...

Question-answering systems frequently rely on knowledge graphs, large collections of facts about real-world entities (people, organizations, countries, ...

In natural-language understanding (NLU), the Transformer-based BERT language model is king. Its high performance on multiple tasks has strongly influenced ...

The global machine-learning market is expanding rapidly. In fact, Forbes Business Insights predicts that the market for machine-learning products will reach ...

Like physical communities, online gathering places can vary substantially in terms of how welcoming they feel. Amanda Cullen, a PhD candidate in informatics ...

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

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

The first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Summit on June 2 will bring together customers, developers, and the science community to learn about ...