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Get Answers in Context with Semantic Search in Microsoft 365

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Don't miss the upcoming DEVintersection event on December 8-10, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

What you'll learn

For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for AI, full reading comprehension is still an elusive goal but a necessary one if we’re going to measure and achieve general intelligence AI. In search applications, machine comprehension will give a precise answer rather than a URL that contains the answer somewhere within a lengthy web page. Moreover, machine comprehension models can understand specific knowledge embedded in articles that usually cover narrow and specific domains, where the search data that algorithms depend upon is sparse. In this session, see and learn from Bill Baer about the latest innovation with natural language and machine reading comprehension in Microsoft search.

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Get Answers in Context with Semantic Search in Microsoft 365
48mins

About the author

In today’s fast-paced world with technology changing rapidly, it’s a challenge to stay on top of everything new while mastering the fundamentals. This exciting event, now in its eighth year, brings your favorite Microsoft leaders, engineers and industry experts together to educate, network, and share their expertise with you. 2018 was an amazing year for developers working in the Microsoft stack, but its challenging to understand the implications of events like the acquisition of GitHub by Micro... more

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