Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource languages. Learn more:* The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-state-and-fate-of-linguistic-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the-nlp-world/) | Publication, July 2020* Project VeLLM (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-vellm/) | Project page* Kahani: Visual Storytelling (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/kahani/) | Project page* Kahani: Visual Storytelling through Culturally Nuanced Images (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/quarterly-brief/jan-2024-brief/articles/kahani-visual-storytelling-through-culturally-nuanced-images/) | Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 1, January 2024* Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/teachers-in-india-help-microsoft-research-design-ai-tool-for-creating-great-classroom-content/) | Microsoft Research blog, October 2023* Digital Labor: Project Karya (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-karya/) | Project page* Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools with work that also educates (https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/features/village-by-village-creating-the-building-blocks-for-ai-tools-with-work-that-also-educates/) | Microsoft Source Asia blog, February 2024