Kyle Williams

Senior Scientist

Microsoft

Biography

I’m a Senior Scientist at Microsoft Healthcare working on AI + Healthcare. I research and develop novel machine learning systems for healthcare and support them from conception to production. I love using my technical skills to have an impact in the healthcare space.

I have experience conducting research and developing production quality models in the fields of natural language processing, conversational AI, knowledge graphs, information retrieval, evaluation, metrics, and experimentation.

I received my PhD in 2016 from The Pennsylvania State University and have co-authored over 40 peer reviewed research papers related to my work.

Interests

Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Experimentation
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing

Education

PhD in Information Sciencies and Technology, 2016
The Pennsylvania State University
MS in Computer Science, 2012
The University of Cape Town
BS in Management Studies with a specialization in Computer Science, 2009
The University of Cape Town

Last updated on Jul 14, 2019

Featured Publications

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Kyle Williams (2019). Zero Shot Intent Classification Using Long-Short Term Memory Networks. INTERSPEECH 2019.

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Kyle Williams, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Imed Zitouni (2019). Automatic Task Completion Flows from Web APIs. International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ‘19).

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Kyle Williams (2019). Neural Lexicons for Slot Tagging in Spoken Language Understanding. 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL ‘19).

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Kunho Kim, Rahul Jha, Kyle Williams, Alex Marin, Imed Zitouni (2019). Slot Tagging for Task Oriented Spoken Language Understanding in Human-to-Human Conversation Scenarios. Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).

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Kyle Williams, Imed Zitouni (2017). Does That Mean You're Happy? RNN-based Modeling of User Interaction Sequences to Detect Good Abandonment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘17).

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