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Here's a presentation from one of their researchers, Harm van Seijen[0], to give you an idea of what sort of work they do.

Applying reinforcement learning to dialogue systems seems incredibly difficult, but if Maluuba (or others) can get a handle on the problem it would not be unreasonable to expect another revolution in the vein of applying convolutional nets to vision.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-8WkKhHYqA