Search & information retrieval
Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.
Theories of conversation for conversational IR
Towards a model for spoken conversational search
Overview of the TREC 2019 deep learning track
Quickr: Cost-Effective Data Analytics at Scale
Quickr explores cost-effective data analytics at scale, breaking new ground in research on offering approximate answers for complex ad-hoc queries.
Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX)
The Data Management, Mining and Exploration (DMX) Group at Microsoft Research was established in 1999 and was managed by Surajit Chaudhuri. In 2020, DMX and the Database Group merged to form the current Data Systems…
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.
Auditing Outsourced Services
How can users of a cloud service verify that the service truly performs as promised? This question is vital today because clouds are complicated black boxes, running in different administrative domains from users. Their correctness…
Accessible Information Retrieval
Web search is an important modern literacy skill, necessary for fully participating in many aspects of society including education, employment, commerce, and entertainment. However, web search is particularly challenging for people with print disabilities, such…