Hope Speech and Help Speech: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate
Tackling online attacks targeting certain individuals, groups of people, or communities is a major modern-day web challenge. Research efforts in hate speech detection thus far have largely focused on identifying and subsequently filtering out negative…
An Eye Tracking Study of Web Search by People with and without Dyslexia
Video of Microsoft Research intern and UCSD Ph.D. student Srishti Palani presenting research on the topic of how dyslexia impacts search engine use. This research talk accompanies the article from SIGIR 2020 that can be…
Microsoft at SIGIR 2020
Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 43rd International ACL SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR).
Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization
No Interaction as Indicator of Search Satisfaction
At Bing, measuring user success has always been a deciding factor as to which feature or change is shipped to production. Testing such changes is carried out through randomized controlled experiments, where success metrics are…