Search and information retrieval

Exploring indexing and classification technologies, entity extraction, and user-experience concepts that help people organize and find information

What's on the page

  1. Microsoft Research Blog
  2. Projects
  3. Publications
  4. Products & Downloads
  5. Videos
  6. People
  7. Groups
  8. Events

Microsoft Research Blog

See the Microsoft Research blog

Preliminary KDD Cup 2016 third phase and overall results announced

By Alex Wade, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research The preliminary results are in for the third and final round of the $10,000 KDD Cup 2016, and it was a squeaker!  The top ten finalists, out of a field of 3,773 submissions from 554 teams, were separated by only .01 points. Their task? To rank research institutions by influence, based on their predictions of the number of papers that would be accepted to top conferences in…

July 2016

Microsoft Research Blog

Getting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic

Episode 11, February 7, 2018 – Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the new currency, the new electricity. It’s even been called the new black. While data may not actually be any of these things, we can say this: in today’s networked world, data is increasingly valuable, and it is essential to research,…

February 2018

Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant Program

New Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant provides support to under-represented groups in computing

By Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research I am pleased to announce that Microsoft Research is funding a new academic program, the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. This grant program offers selected doctoral students doing computing research at U.S. and Canadian universities up to US $20,000 to fund their dissertation work. This program is open to students currently under-represented in the technology sector, including women, people with disabilities, and people who are African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino,…

March 2017

Microsoft Research Blog

Projects

See all 72 results inside projects

Trajectory Data Mining

Established: December 1, 2007

Episode 39, August 29, 2018 The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr. Katja Hofmann, the research lead of Project Malmo in the Machine Intelligence and Perception Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, it’s the perfect environment for teaching AI agents, via […]

Renlifang/EntityCube

Established: July 31, 2008

EntityCube is a research prototype and is a test bed for exploring entity mining and search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a substantial presence. The need for collecting and understanding Web information about a real-world entity (such as a person or a product) is currently fulfilled manually through search engines. However, information about a single entity might appear in thousands of Web pages. Even if…

Database Privacy

Established: November 24, 2003

Overview The problem of statistical disclosure control—revealing accurate statistics about a population while preserving the privacy of individuals—has a venerable history. An extensive literature spans multiple disciplines: statistics, theoretical computer science, security, and databases.  Nevertheless, despite this extensive literature, «privacy breaches» are common, both in the literature and in practice, even when security and data integrity are not compromised. This project revisits private data analysis from the perspective of modern cryptography.  We address many previous…

Products & Downloads

See all 14 results inside products & downloads

Microsoft Information-Seeking Conversations (MISC) data set

April 2018

We introduce the Microsoft Information-Seeking Conversation data (MISC), a set of recordings of information-seeking conversations between human “seekers” and “intermediaries”. MISC includes audio and video signals; transcripts of conversation; affectual and physiological signals; recordings of search and other computer use; and post-task surveys on emotion, success, and effort.

Scalable Hyperlink Store

February 2014

The Scalable Hyperlink Store is a specialized “database” for the web graph. SHS maintains the web graph in main memory, distributed over many machines.

Size: 1 MB

Tie-Aware Information-Retrieval Performance Measures

May 2007

A collection of short programs to compute standard information-retrieval performance measures—Recall, Precision, F-measure, Mean Average Precision, Mean Reciprocal Rank, Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain—in the presence of tied scores.

Size: 16 KB

People

See all 64 results inside people

Groups

See all 19 results inside groups

Big Data Mining (BDM)

The Big Data Mining Group aims to build web-scale knowledge graphs about real-world entities and concepts from big data to enable artificial intelligence applications with knowledge reasoning and natural language understanding. Research of the Big Data Mining Group at Microsoft spans a wide variety of topics including data mining, big data, deep learning, natural language processing, intelligent agents, and crowd-sourcing.

Social Media Collective

Over the last decade, social media has become a vital tool for our engagement with the people who matter to us, the work we do, and with the wider public world. From email to Facebook, mobile phones to Twitter, people now use a vast array of social technologies as part of their everyday lives and practices. Our primary purpose is to provide a rich contextual understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that underpin these…

Cryptography, Security, and Applied Mathematics

The Cryptography, Security, and Applied Mathematics (CSAM) group conducts research on theoretical and practical aspects of cryptography, computational complexity, formal approaches to system and software security, data mining and machine learning with applications to security, and number theory.

Events

See all 1 results inside events

Microsoft PhD Summit

Redmond, Washington, USA | October 2018

Distinguished PhD students, including FLIP Fellows, current Microsoft Research PhD Fellows, AI Summer School Winners, and Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant recipients are invited to attend a two-day workshop at Microsoft Research Redmond. This is an opportunity for top PhD students to enhance skills, build a network, and discuss research within a community of peers and notable Microsoft researchers. Specifically, they will: • Hear from researchers in academia and industry • Learn about building their brand…

Follow us:

Share this page: