RESEARCH AREA

Natural Language Processing

Our team advances the state of the art in natural language understanding and generation, and deploys these systems at scale to break down language barriers, enable people to understand and communicate with anyone, and to provide a safe experience—no matter what language they speak.

The opportunities and challenges of this work are immense. Billions of people use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language, but many of these languages lack traditional NLP resources and our systems need to be robust to the informal tone, slang and typos often found in daily communication.

Our research spans multiple areas across NLP and machine learning, including deep learning/neural networks, machine translation, natural language understanding and generation, low-resource NLP, question answering, dialogue, and cross-lingual and cross-domain transfer learning.

Latest Publications

June 03, 2019

NLP

Pay less attention with Lightweight and Dynamic Convolutions

Felix Wu, Angela Fan, Alexei Baevski, Yann Dauphin, Michael Auli

June 03, 2019

October 31, 2018

NLP

Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation (EMNLP 2018, best paper)

Guillaume Lample, Myle Ott, Alexis Conneau, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

October 31, 2018

July 15, 2018

NLP

Hierarchical Neural Story Generation. (ACL 2018, best paper honorable mention)

Angela Fan, Michael Lewis, Yann Dauphin

July 15, 2018

October 29, 2018

NLP

XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations

Alexis Conneau, Ruty Rinott, Guillaume Lample, Adina Williams, Samuel R. Bowman, Holger Schwenk, Ves Stoyanov

October 29, 2018