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Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026 – About the event
Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 The Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 is a vibrant convergence of ideas, bringing together leading researchers, faculty, and innovators from across the country. The summit, over…
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Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?
Speakers: Bharat Goenka Host: Ashish Panwar, Siddarth Asokan #MSRI #LabSabha We may be the last of the few product companies on this planet which continue to do this – and are in the middle of…
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The Policy Layer that Governs Africa’s Algorithmic Ecosystem
Watch Dr. Jane Munga in this seminar session where she presents findings from the Africa Technology Policy Tracker (AfTech), a systematic repository of digital economy strategies, laws, and regulations across Africa. AfTech helps examine what…
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Language & Voice AI for Africa: From Data to Deployment and Impact
This seminar explores how language and voice AI systems can be built and scaled for African contexts—from community-driven data collection and multilingual foundation models to robust deployment and real-world applications across sectors such as agriculture,…
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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages
Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far exceeding the coverage of any other Bantu language. This prominence…
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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.
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Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in Low-resource Settings
Translating from high-resource to low-resource languages like Emakhuwa remains a challenge due to limited parallel data, orthographic variation, and frequent loanwords and code-switching. In this talk Felermino will discuss how to apply lexicon-guided neural machine…
