Harry Shum, PhD
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Corporation
www.bing.com
Evelyne Viegas, PhD
Senior Research Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
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Launched on June 1, 2009 and called a “Decision Engine”
Fastest growing search engine in 2009
“The best new product of the year 2009” - Crunchies Award by TechCrunch
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• Tough Love for Microsoft Search: Danny Sullivan
• http://searchengineland.com/tough-love-for-microsoft-search-15968
• Dec. 30, 2008
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concepts
task completion
Simplified tasks
Bing 2010 Summer Release
demo
Yu-Ting Kuo
Principal Program Manager
www.bing.com
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• Applying Bayesian Minimum Risk (BMR) Framework
• Intent Model: It = argmaxI P( I | Ut , It-1 ; K)
• Interaction Model: At = argminA E[Cost(A, It)]
• Considering productization feasibility
• Local optimum vs. theoretical optimum
• Leveraging rich presentation capability
• Infer multiple intent candidates
• Generate dialog actions at multiple levels
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Kuansan Wang, PhD
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
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Quick Tabs for relevant Bing
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Entity-based result summary
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• Driving the Search Evolution
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Microsoft Web N-gram Services
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Provide large scale web index data for language modeling research work
Public beta since April 2010 (http://research.microsoft.com/web-ngram)
SIGIR workshop July 2010
New API Services and query data in Microsoft Web N-gram Services
starting TODAY on http://research.microsoft.com/web-ngram
Announcing the first Bing-MSR Challenge (Fall 2010)
• Awards
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Bing-MSR Fellowships
Conference/Workshop Travel grants
Check http://research.microsoft.com/web-ngram for more details beginning August