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Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale

July 24, 2019 | Qizhen Zhang

This paper presents GraphRex, an efficient, robust, scalable, and easy-to-program framework for graph processing on datacenter infrastructure. To users, GraphRex presents a declarative, Datalog-like interface that is natural and expressive. Underneath, it compiles those queries…

Qizhen Zhang giving a talk on Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale at Microsoft Research

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Lifelong Sequential Modeling with Personalized Memorization for User Response Prediction

Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Lei Zheng, Weijie Bian, Guorui Zhou, Jian Xu, Yong Yu, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Kun Gai

SIGIR 2019 | July 2019

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cwl_eval: An evaluation tool for information retrieval

Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019

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Generic Intent Representation in Web Search

Hongfei Zhang, Xia Song, Chenyan Xiong, Corby Rosset, Paul Bennett, Nick Craswell, Saurabh Tiwary

The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019

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Task Completion Detection

Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, Robert Sim

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) | July 2019

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Microsoft @ SIGIR 2019

July 21, 2019 – July 25, 2019 | Paris, France

Microsoft is excited to be a Gold sponsor of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. We will have over 16 Microsoft attendees present at the conference. Stop by…

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The Emotion Profile of Web Search

Gabriella Kazai, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) | July 2019

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VERSE: Voice. Exploration. Retrieval. Search.

July 18, 2019 | Adam Fourney

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…

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Spreadsheet Intelligence for Ideas of Excel

July 18, 2019 | Shi Han

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…

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SILK: Preventing Latency Spikes in Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores

July 12, 2019 | Oana Balmau

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…

Oana Balmau gives talk on SILK: Preventing Latency Spikes in Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores at Microsoft Research

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