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Microsoft Portugal contributes relevance technology for the Portuguese version of Bing
Microsoft Portugal, through MLDC – Microsoft Language Development Center, its R&D center in Portugal, working in close collaboration with the international Bing engineering team, improved the parameterization of Bing’s search engine to Portuguese, which includes all the variations spoken in the community of Portuguese-speaking countries.This localization of the search engine, which debuts in the new Windows Phone announced today, allows a better understanding of the intention of any user searching the web through Bing, in every variation of Portuguese language. It also offers a better performance regarding ranking and relevance of presented search results.Bing’s version in Portuguese (available at www.bing.pt) was developed by Bing’s world-wide engineering team, and included in the last year a team of Portuguese researchers. This version, still in the Beta stage, is included in the basic feature set of the new Windows Phone, providing a greater mobility when accessing the search engine.
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More information can also be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/portugal/presspass/Comunicados.aspx?ID=426
http://www.fibra.pt/empresas/4333-microsoft-portugal-apresenta-novidades.html
http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/aa---videos---tecnologia/nokia-tvi-lumia-tvi24/1319989-5800.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GBf4yyEqrn8
http://www.pt.cision.com/O4KPTWebNewLayout/ClientUser/GetClippingDetails.aspx?id=ddb20fef-ee18-47ee-ab66-5e071fa3566b&userId=a2062313-f9c2-4715-a1dd-89b5bbb991c1
http://www.facebook.com/windowsphonept
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MLDC promotes FAST training in the scope of World Search Project
From 11th to 15th of April 2011 took place in Lisbon a FAST training course in the scope of the QREN World Search Project. FAST ESP is a service-oriented development platform which is geared towards production searchable indexes. It provides a flexible framework for creating Extract-Transform-Load applications for efficient indexing of searchable content. FAST also offers a number of search-derivative applications, focused on specific search use cases, including publishing, market intelligence and mobile search. There are currently over 3,000 FAST implementations worldwide. These implementations offer the core search platform, FAST ESP, and develop real-time search and business intelligence solutions on top of the platform.
During this period, members of five co-promoters of the World Search Project (IEETA; Maisis; Ponto.C; I.Zone; ISEP) were trained by the Microsoft FAST division group in two key topics which are relevant for this important project for the Portuguese web search industry: (1) “SharePoint Search for Application Developers” and (2) “FAST Search for SharePoint for Application Developers”.
For more information about FAST and the World Search Project:
www.worldseachproject.com
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/fast-customer.aspx
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MLDC starts a partnership with Bing’s Search Technology Center Product Group Team
In March 2011 MLDC started a partnership with the Bing’s Search Technology Center Product Group Team, located in Munich. Thus, two Portuguese researchers, a computer scientist (José Santos) and a computational linguist (Manuel Ribeiro), kicked-off the collaboration by spending two weeks in Germany ramping up on the Bing technology.
They are now integrated in the Query Understanding Team, whose goal is to comprehend the user intents beyond the query text and convey this understanding to the ranker through query rewriting, thus producing more relevant search results. Their aim is to target small and medium markets such as pt-pt, in the time frame of the QREN WS project.
The main focus of the team is with a Speller, which attempts to correct misspelled queries, and with Combined Alterations (CAL), whose purpose is to transform the query by adding synonyms, expanding inflections, breaking compound words, marking up named entities and dropping words.
The partnership between the groups attempts to strengthen the relationship between the two research centers (STC and MLDC), as well as bring together the efforts to produce and deliver high quality products for several European languages.
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Bing Closes Search Gap on Google, Report Says
Wall Street Journal - February 11, 2011
Microsoft in January saw the biggest month-over-month increase in its search share since its launch, according to a new comScore report, making advances at the expense of Google.
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