The Emotion Profile of Web Search
VERSE: Voice. Exploration. Retrieval. Search.
People with visual impairments are expert users of audio interfaces, including voice-activated virtual assistants and screen readers. Through interviews and surveys of this population, we learned that virtual assistants are convenient and accessible, but lack…
Spreadsheet Intelligence for Ideas of Excel
Ideas in Excel aims at such one-click intelligence—when a user clicks the Ideas button on the Home tab of Excel, the intelligent service will empower the user to understand his or her data via automatic…
SILK: Preventing Latency Spikes in Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores
LSM-based KV stores are designed to offer good write performance by capturing client writes in memory and only later flushing them to storage. Writes are later compacted into a tree-like data structure on disk to…
Recent Advances in Image Captioning, Image-Text Retrieval and Visual Question Answering using Scene Graph Parsing, What Next?
Creating appropriate representation of data is the key for many recent breakthroughs in both language and vision. In natural language, from the structured representations like parse trees to BERT and Transformers pretrained on large scale…