The story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
Adam Troy had an idea. He was spending so much time searching through old emails and attachments to prepare for meetings: Could AI help him be better prepared for meetings? Could machine learning automatically identify the most relevant emails and…
In between the lines: Broadening access to web search by understanding the needs of people with dyslexia
People with dyslexia perceive the world in different ways when it comes to the arrangement of letters and words on paper – or, these days, on web pages. Indeed, so much of modern life and accessibility to the information that…
Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
| Bhaskar Mitra
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…
Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais receives SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais, a leading researcher at the intersection of information retrieval and human-computer interaction, and significant contributor to Microsoft’s search technologies, received the SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award for the paper entitled Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior…
Awards | SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award for “Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models Using Adversarial Learning” with Daniel Cohen, Katja Hofmann, and W. Bruce Croft, SIGIR 2018.
ICML Conference Analytics
The Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities within it: publications, authors, institutions, topics, journals, and conferences. In this series, we present analytic insights about current conferences, which we hope will help you prepare for attending each event. All…
In the news | The Guardian
‘It’s going to create a revolution’: how AI is transforming the NHS
The tumour is hard to miss on the scan. The size of a golf ball, it sits bold and white on the brain stem, a part of the organ that sends messages back and forth between body and brain. In…
In the news | The New York Times
Silicon Valley’s Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry’s biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Democratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces
| Ahmed Awadallah and Ryen W. White
Benefiting from a confluence of factors, such as service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), application program interfaces – APIs – are playing an increasingly important role in both the virtual and the physical world. For example, web services, such…