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Microsoft Ability Initiative: A collaborative quest to innovate in image captioning for people who are blind or with low vision

Microsoft is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology to improve and positively influence all parts of society. Recent advances in deep learning and related AI techniques have resulted in significant strides in automated image captioning. However, current image captioning systems are not well-aligned with the needs of a community that can benefit greatly from them: people who are blind or with low vision. We recently completed a competitive process to find an academic research…

January 2019

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Cracking code-mixing — an important step in making human-computer interaction more engaging

Communication is a large part of who we are as human beings, and today, technology has allowed us to communicate in new ways and to audiences much larger and wider than ever before. That technology has assumed single-language speech, which — quite often — does not reflect the way people naturally speak. India, like many other parts of the world, is multilingual on a societal level with most people speaking two or more languages. I…

November 2018

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Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval

Traditionally, machine learning based approaches to information retrieval have taken the form of supervised learning-to-rank models. Recent advances in other machine learning approaches—such as adversarial learning and reinforcement learning—should find interesting new applications in future retrieval systems. At Microsoft AI & Research, we have been exploring some of these methods in the context of web search. We will share some of our recent work in this area at SIGIR 2018. This post briefly describes what…

July 2018

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Trajectory Data Mining

Established: December 1, 2007

Episode 90, September 18, 2019 Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been worth it. Situated firmly in Louis Pasteur’s quadrant of the research grid (the square where […]

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…

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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.

Network Navigator visual

April 2015

Network Navigator lets you explore node-link data by panning over and zooming into a force-directed node layout (which can be precomputed or animated live). From an initial overview of all nodes, you can use simple text search to enlarge matching nodes in ways that guide subsequent navigation. Network nodes can also be color-coded based on…

LightLDA

October 2015

LightLDA is a distributed system for large scale topic modeling. It implements a distributed sampler that enables very large data sizes and models. LightLDA improves sampling throughput and convergence speed via a fast O(1) metropolis-Hastings algorithm, and allows small cluster to tackle very large data and model sizes through model scheduling and data parallelism architecture.…

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Knowledge Technologies and Intelligent Experiences (KTX)

Knowledge Technologies and Intelligent Experiences (KTX) develops new AI technologies and AI-powered user experiences that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to achieve more. We perform research and advanced development on projects that make and utilize progress in areas such as machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge extraction and representation, human-computer interaction and collaboration, data mining (including text mining), search, and digital assistants. We collaborate extensively with colleagues at Microsoft and beyond to build more intelligent…

Social Computing

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

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…

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Researcher-Microsoft Research Asia

Type: Full-time researcher
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…

Research Software Development Engineer – MSRA – Beijing

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

As RSDE, you will work with researchers on incubation projects from early stage ideas to deployed prototypes with business potential to become "the next big thing". You will be trained and function as a software engineer in a product team, thus working closely with peer developers, development lead, testers, researchers, and program manager to define and implement new products and features. You will also get to face research challenges and learn cutting edge technologies in…

Research SDE – MSRA 实习生转正专用- Beijing

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

Are you passionate about new technology? Would you like to work with people who are shaping the future of software and computing? Its innovative technologies have become integral parts of many well-known products, such as Microsoft Office, Media Center PC, Tablet PC, Xbox and Windows. We are looking for top talents to join us as Research Software Development Engineers (RSDE). Job number: 674451

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