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Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

Abstract: This research introduces a novel system for converting natural language text into structured SQL queries using a hybrid [22] [23] Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework. The system ...