Search and information retrieval
Tool
WikiQA Corpus
The WikiQA corpus is a new publicly available set of question and sentence pairs, collected and annotated for research on open-domain question answering. In order to reflect the true information need of general users, we…
Publication
Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
Project
SigmaDolphin: Automated Math Word Problem Solving
Building a computer system to automatically solve math word problems written in natural language. SigmaDolphin is a project initiated in early 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, with the primary goal of building a computer intelligent…
Publication
Persona-ization: Searching on Behalf of Others
Project
MindFinder: Finding Images by Sketching
Sketch-based image search is a well-known and difficult problem, in which little progress has been made in the past decade in developing a large-scale and practical sketch-based search engine. We have revisited this problem and…
Project
Sketch Recognition
We built the Sketch2Tag system for hand-drawn sketch recognition. Due to large variations presented in hand-drawn sketches, most of existing work was limited to a particular domain or limited pre-defined classes. Different from existing work,…