Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shaohan Huang

Lei Cui

Furu Wei

Ming Zhou

Li Dong

Yang Liu

Ziqiang Cao

Wei-Ying Ma

Kati Amanda London

Haoyong Zhang

Tao Ge

Yu-Ting Kuo

There is provided a solution for semantic representation of text in a document. In this solution, textual information comprising a sequence of text elements () and layout information () of the text element are determined from a document. The layout information () indicates a spatial arrangement of the plurality of text elements () presented within the document. Based at least in part on the plurality of text elements () and the layout information (), respective semantic feature representations () of the plurality of text elements () are generated. By jointly using both the textual information and the layout information (), rich semantics of the text elements () in the document can be effectively captured in the feature representations.

Semantic representation of text in document

The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.

Live comments generating

Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.

Autonomous generation of melody

Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.

Systems and methods for providing a comment-centered news reader

An example environment can automatically generate content for a conversation in response to a presented content item. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network. In response to receiving the information, the computing device identifies a start comment. In response to identifying the start comment, the computing device identifies a reply to the start comment using at least a ranking model.

Automatic conversation creator for news

Methods and systems for providing a comments-centered news reader. Configurations allow live comments to be presented along with the news or similar website content. While a user scrolls up and down in a browser presenting a news article on the user's computer device (e.g., mobile device), linked comments are shown in a selected region. The displayed comments automatically change to adapt to what parts (paragraphs, sentences) of the news article that user is currently reading. At the same time, users can publish their own comments without having to proceed to a separate section of the browser, thus saving the viewer actions and improving the user's experience. The user's system or a remote server records the comments along with the article or the place users are in the article when the comment was entered.

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Shaohan Huang