Editorial note: The CIKM 2015 Machine Learning Competition asked participants to predict the outcomes of every match in the Australian 2015 football league season. The competition received more than 90 submissions from the machine learning community. Sports bookmaker Hung Doan won the competition using just…
Best paper Assessing the impact of syntactic and semantic structures for answer passages reranking Kateryna Tymoshenko (University of Trento); Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute) In this paper, we extensively study the use of syntactic and semantic structures obtained with shallow and deeper syntactic parsers…
Posted by Jeannette M. Wing The Internet, global positioning systems, the laser, multi-touch displays and search engines. What do these have in common? These technologies, which we take for granted today, came out of basic scientific research. Basic research creates knowledge. It advances our fundamental…
Making search better by slowing it down will be explored in the welcoming keynote when CIKM convenes in Melbourne, Australia this week. In “Slow Search: Improving Information Retrieval Using Human Assistance,” Principal Researcher Jaime Teevan will share some of the latest findings coming out of…
Preparations for the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference are already under way. SIGMOD is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. Upcoming SIGMOD dates Research paper second submission dates November…
Christine Clifton-Thornton, senior writer for Research News, asked the President to write an article on STEM education. His response follows. America’s drive to tinker, invent, and push the boundaries of what’s possible sets us apart—and we have a lot to show for it. Scientific advances,…
When Vidya Srinivasan returns to the Grace Hopper conference this week, she’ll get a quick answer to her recent tweet about the opening day Code-a-thon—“LOVE #OpenSource?” Affirmations will surely come in the form of the 230 participants signed up for Open Source Day when the…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Zuzana Kukelova was quite the troublemaker in her youth. In fact, in elementary school she was always getting kicked out of math class. But the source of her disruption wasn't related to any sort of delinquency. Kukelova, you see, is…
While we live and breathe data science year-round at Microsoft Research, this summer, we offered a broad range of data science education opportunities for young researchers. Participation in these events was extremely rewarding—for both the students and the organizers. Students and advisors at the National…
Note: Research News has provided links to papers where available. Best Paper Award (first place) Partially Occluded Object Detection by Finding the Visible Features and Parts By Kai Chi Chan, Alper Ayvaci, and Bernd Heisele Best Paper Award (second place) Joint Metal Artifact Reduction and…
Microsoft researchers have figured out a way to build software systems spanning many computers that can be proven free of bugs, a significant feat in the decades-long quest to create perfect software.
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Advances in artificial intelligence have improved our lives in many ways. Thanks to methods developed in artificial intelligence, we have GPS systems that help us to get where we are going, smart phones that understand what we are…
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