Social sciences - Microsoft Research

In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and…

Publication

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures

Bhaskar Mitra

Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) | March 2025

Publication

Development and Validation of Meta-Learning Assessment Tool (MLAT) to Assess Meta-learning in Secondary Stage Students

B. M. Lakshmi, Anil Kumar K., Kshitiz Kumar

Stallion Journal for Multidisciplinary Associated Research Studies | March 2025, Vol 4(1)

Publication

AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans

Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Egede, Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng

March 2025

Video Project

Publication

Investigating Youth AI Auditing

Jaemarie Solyst, Cindy Peng, Wesley Deng, Praneetha Pratapa, Amy Ogan, Jessica Hammer, Jason I. Hong, Motahhare Eslami

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | February 2025

Project

Project Gecko

A cross-lab initiative building equitable, trusted multilingual Copilots for population-scale use, starting with speech-first agricultural assistants for smallholder farmers in East Africa and South Asia