Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM)

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Machine Learning Research

What Were We Talking About?: How Amazon's Alexa keeps up with conversations

Conversational agents have a tough job following the zigs and zags of human conversation. They’re getting better at it — thanks to yesterday’s technology. Amazon recently improved the Alexa chatbot’s ability to identify the current topic of conversation.

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Machine Learning Research

Found in Translation: Apple's method to identify a language from a few words

Language models can’t correct your misspellings or suggest the next word in a text without knowing what language you’re using. For instance, if you type “tac-,” are you aiming for “taco,” a hand-held meal in Spanish, or “taca,” a crown in Turkish?