Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yonathan Weill

Noam Koenigstein

Oren Barkan

Nir Nice

Itzik Malkiel

Ori Katz

Avi Caciularu

Roy Hirsch

Idan Rejwan

Jonathan Ephrath

A disclosed method facilitates translation of natural language queries into query language statements usable to retrieve data from or write data to a particular database. The method includes obtaining a pool of shots. Each shot in the pool includes a natural language query component and a corresponding database translation component. The method further provides for vectorizing the natural language query component for each of the shots into a common vector space; receiving a natural language query from a user interface; vectorizing the natural language query within the common vector space; identifying a subset of vectorized natural language query components that satisfy a similarity metric when compared to the vectorized natural language query; and generating an LLM prompt that includes shots from the pool corresponding to the subset of the vectorized natural language query.

Context-based prompt generation for automated translations between natural language and query language

A method of training a machine learning model is provided. The method includes receiving labeled training data in the machine learning model, the received labeled training data including content data for items accessible to a user and input usage data representing recorded interaction between the user and the items, wherein the received content data for each item includes data representing intrinsic attributes of the item. The method further includes selecting a set of the input usage data that excludes input usage data for a proper subset of the items and training the machine learning model based on both the content data and the selected set of input usage data of the received labeled training data for the items.

Model with usage data compensation

A relational similarity determination engine receives as input a dataset including a set of entities and co-occurrence data that defines co-occurrence relations for pairs of the entities. The relational similarity determination engine also receives as input side information defining explicit relations between the entities. The relational similarity determination engine jointly models the co-occurrence relations and the explicit relations for the entities to compute a similarity metric for each different pair of entities within the dataset. Based on the computed similarity metrics, the relational similarity determination engine identifies a most similar replacement entity from the dataset for each of the entities within the dataset. For a select entity received as an input, the relational similarity determination engine outputs the identified most similar replacement entity.

Representation learning with side information

Semantic search techniques via focused summarizations are described. For example, a search query is received for a text-based content item in a data set comprising a plurality of text-based content items. A first feature vector representative of the search query is obtained. A respective semantic similarity score is determined between the first feature vector and each of a plurality of second feature vectors. Each of the second feature vectors is representative of a machine-generated summarization of a respective text-based content item. The machine-generated summarization comprises a plurality of multi-word fragments that are selected from the respective text-based content item via a transformer-based machine learning model. A search result is provided responsive to the search query. The search result comprises a subset of the plurality of text-based content items associated with a respective second feature vector having a semantic similarity score that has a predetermined relationship with a predetermined threshold value.

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Yonathan Weill