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 AWS ...

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 ...

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 ...

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) starts next week, and as Alexa principal research scientist Ariya ...

As natural-language processing (NLP) has become more integral to our daily lives, the ability to accurately evaluate NLP models has grown in importance. ...

On November 10, at the fourth Fact Extraction and Verification workshop (FEVER), we will be announcing the winners of the third fact verification challenge ...

In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a new “age of self” in ...

Amazon today announced it is launching a new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a competition focused on helping advance development of next-generation virtual ...

Natural-language understanding and question answering are areas of focus, with additional topics ranging from self-learning to text summarization. Source ...

Product retrieval systems, like the one in the Amazon Store, often use the text of product reviews to improve the results of queries. But such systems can ...