Search and information retrieval
Microsoft Research Blog
Putting Search into Context
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research The breathtaking ascendance of Internet search over the past decade has tended to obscure the limitations of the underlying technology. So quickly has search been embraced by hundreds…
Microsoft Research Blog
Web Search—With a Little Help from Your Friends
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Who knows you better than anybody? Your friends and family, of course. Who is best-positioned to understand your wants and needs? Your closest acquaintances, naturally. Doesn’t it make…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research Unveils Technologies to Improve the Web Experience
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Battling search spam. Streamlining Web-page monitoring. Helping protect online privacy. Enabling the illiterate to use computers. These are just a few of the ways Microsoft Research is demonstrating…
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The Person in Personal
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Privacy-Enhancing Personalized Web Search
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Identifying ambiguous queries in web search
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Tie-Aware Information-Retrieval Performance Measures
A collection of short programs to compute standard information-retrieval performance measures—Recall, Precision, F-measure, Mean Average Precision, Mean Reciprocal Rank, Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain—in the presence of tied scores.
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