Research
Improving how people discover, understand, and use information through advances in search and retrieval.
Project Catapult connects FPGAs together through a network to create a hyperscale, reconfigurable accelerator fabric. See how to use the Project Catapult cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for research. Apply for access…
Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query. Similar to text search, which connects keyword queries to knowledge…
DeepFindSearching within web documents on mobile devices is difficult and unnatural: ctrl-f searches only for exact matches, and it’s hard to see the search results. DeepFind takes a step toward solving this problem by allowing…
The Language and Information Technologies group harnesses AI to understand how people interact with information systems and develop new experiences to empower people to be more productive. Our research interests are at the intersection of information…
Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query. Similar to text search, which connects keyword queries to knowledge…
Most of the AI systems today are driven by three key components (i) data (ii) common sense knowledge and (iii) powerful learning algorithms which can harness this data and knowledge to learn task specific meaningful…
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and…
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
