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    Search and information retrieval

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

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    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

    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

    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

    Projects

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    Trajectory Data Mining

    Established: December 1, 2007

    There is increasing interest in spoken conversational search—multi-turn interactions with a search engine, spoken in natural language—but until recently there was little public data to support research. We describe our experiences building two data sets for spoken conversational search: the Microsoft Information-Seeking Conversation set (“MISC”) and the Spoken Conversational Search set (“SCSdata”). Each data set […]

    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…

    SigmaDolphin

    Established: August 15, 2015

    Building a computer system to automatically solve math word problems written in natural language. SigmaDolphin is a project initiated in early 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, with the primary goal of building a computer intelligent system with natural language understanding and reasoning capacities. We focus on the application of automatic problem solving, i.e., automatically solving problems (especially math word problems) written in natural language. Motivation Computer programs can complete many tasks much more effectively and…

    Publications

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    Predicting Citation Counts Using Text and Graph Mining

    Avishay Livne, Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais

    February 2013

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    Understanding and Improving Web Search Using Large-Scale Observations and Experiments

    Susan Dumais

    May 2014

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    Searching: Fast and slow

    Susan Dumais

    July 2014

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Image attached to Scarce Attention and the Value of Page Rank in Online Search Link description

    Scarce Attention and the Value of Page Rank in Online Search

    Date

    June 28, 2012

    Image attached to Beyond voice recognition: Windows Phone’s Cortana anticipates your needs Link description

    Beyond voice recognition: Windows Phone’s Cortana anticipates your needs

    Date

    April 17, 2014

    Image attached to LiveANDES: Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species Link description

    LiveANDES: Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species

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    April 22, 2013

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    Portrait of B. Ashok

    B. Ashok

    Senior Director of Applied Sciences and Engineering

    Portrait of Ahmed Ashour

    Ahmed Ashour

    Research Software Development Engineer

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    Adam Atkinson

    Software Development Engineer II

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    Peter Bailey

    Principal Applied Scientist

    Portrait of Ram Bairi

    Ram Bairi

    Senior RSDE

    Groups

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    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…

    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 Computing

    Groups doing social computing research include: FUSE Labs NeXus CLUES Social Media Collective Computer-Mediated Living

    Career Opportunities

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    Research Intern – Human-AI Collaboration

    Type: Internship
    Lab/Location: Microsoft Research AI - Redmond
    Research Area: Multiple

    The Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research AI pursues advances in principles of intelligence and interaction and applications of these advances to continuously improve computational systems. The team includes groups exploring foundations of sensing, learning, and decision making, search and retrieval, and human-computer interaction. The main focus of the internship project is building algorithmic methods that will facilitate the process of creating machine learning models and systems which can collaborate better with people. Currently, there is a…

    Research Intern – Network Representation Learning

    Type: Internship
    Research Area: Search and information retrieval

    Microsoft Academic in Microsoft Research is an elite team of researchers and engineers working on algorithms, tools, and experiences around Internet and AI technologies. The intern project will focus on representation learning for a billion-scale heterogeneous entity and text graph. We’re looking for someone who has a strong background in data mining, natural language processing, and machine learning, and is passionate about working on hard problems with some of the best talent in the world.…

    Research SDE – MSRA Beijing

    Type: Research engineer
    Lab/Location: Microsoft Research Lab - Asia
    Research Area: Multiple

    Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region, was founded in 1998 in Beijing. By attracting the best talent from Asia and across the globe, Microsoft Research Asia has grown into a world-class research lab that constantly pushes forward the state of the art and helps to improve people’s computing experiences. Today, with more than 200 researchers and developers and more than 300 visiting scientists and students, the lab conducts basic…

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