Search and information retrieval
Video
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…
Project
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…
Video
VERSE: Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search
Video figure for ASSETS 2019 VERSE article.
Project
DiskANN: Vector Search at Web Scale
We design algorithms to address the challenges of scaling ANNS for web and enterprise search and recommendation systems. Our goal is to build systems that serve trillions of points in a streaming setting cost effectively.
Microsoft Research Blog
The personal web: Connecting information for better search and recommendation
In the digital era, almost everyone struggles with the mountains of information they have. Every activity in our lives seemingly generates more information: emails, files, receipts, photos—the list goes on. We have trails of digital…
Event
Microsoft at WSDM 2020
Microsoft is a proud Silver sponsor of WSDM 2020, one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our…
Publication
Toward Activity Discovery in the Personal Web
Video
Learning to Rank for IR with Neural Nets (AFIRM 2020)
Learning to rank (LTR) for information retrieval (IR) involves the application of machine learning (ML) models to rank artifacts, such as documents or entities, in response to user’s information need—as may be expressed by a…
