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Enabling COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Across the United States on Azure
During pandemics, the ability to let people know if they have been exposed to a contagious disease is essential for public health practitioners. This is known as contact tracing and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. In this post, I describe the journey of our Microsoft team to deploy an exposure notification server on Azure.
Entity Disambiguation Using Search Engine
This blog post proposes a methodology to disambiguate misspelled entities by comparing the search retrieval performance with different custom search analyzers in a search engine.
Using Azure Cognitive Services to Analyse Evidence in Public Safety and Justice
A scenario commonly encountered in public safety and justice is the need to collect and index digital data recovered from devices, so that investigating officers can perform evidence-based analysis. We recently built an advanced evidence analysis platform that uses Azure AI services for automated labelling of media and documents.
Observability for Event Stream Processing with Azure Functions, Event Hubs, and Application Insights
With distributed tracing handled by Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Application Insights behind the scenes, Azure Application Insights provides useful monitoring visualizations of the system that helped us easily understand system performances and troubleshoot failures.
Unit Testing Azure DevOps UI Extensions
Mocking cloud service dependencies in modern applications is essential for independent unit testing. We show how to mock all relevant parts of the Azure DevOps Extension SDK, Azure DevOps Extension API as well as other external APIs to create meaningful unit tests for Azure DevOps UI Extensions and reach full code coverage.
Developing and Deploying a Recommender Model for Continuous Systematic Literature Reviews
This blog post is about using the Microsoft Academic Graph and NLP to build a personalized recommender system to suggest new scientific publications to researchers maintaining Systematic Literature Reviews.
Evaluation Framework for Information Extraction
In this blog post we cover the process, requirements, and the design of an evaluation framework for NLP and Information Extraction. We cover the reasoning behind such a framework, and discuss its implementation with examples from a Named Entity Recognition evaluation point of view.
Building A Clinical Data Drift Monitoring System With Azure DevOps, Azure Databricks, And MLflow
Hospitals around the world regularly work towards improving the health of their patients as well as ensuring there are enough resources available for patients awaiting care. During these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic, Intensive Care Units are having to make difficult decisions at a greater frequency to optimize patient health outcomes. The continuous collection of biometric and clinical data throughout a patient’s stay enables medical professionals to take a data-informed, holistic approach to clinical decision making. In some cases, a Machine Learning model may be used to provide insig...
Using Blockchain To Securely Transfer And Verify Files
MOOG came to CSE in hopes of building a technology solution that would prove the provenance and transfer of digital assets securely between parties. Working together, Microsoft and MOOG set out to develop a demo of this solution that leverages Azure and blockchain technology.