I frequently do public speaking on machine learning research at Microsoft, and sometimes I am asked for more information on the work behind some of the cool services we provide.  In this blog post, I want to provide links to some of the Microsoft Research papers behind the Cognitive Services. 

Computer Vision API:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/rich-image-captioning-in-the-wild/

Language Understanding Intelligence Service/LUIS (try it at http://luis.ai):

• https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1409/1409.4814.pdf
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/fast-and-easy-language-understanding-for-dialog-systems-with-microsoft-language-understanding-intelligent-service-luis/

You can search for additional Microsoft Research publications at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?content-type=publications&sort_by=most-relevant.