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

• Tough Love for Microsoft Search: Danny Sullivan • http://searchengineland.com/tough-love-for-microsoft-search-15968

• Dec. 30, 2008

Simplified tasks meaningconcepts

task completion

Bing 2010 Summer Release

Yu-Ting Kuo Principal Program Manager www.bing.com

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Intent Model

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It At

Ut

• 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

Intent +

Interaction

Query-level

Dialog

Document-

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Kuansan Wang, PhD

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research

Enhanced View

Deep Links

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Entity-based result summary

Quick Tabs for relevant Bing

verticals, domains, answers

All Bing Vertical Services

History-aware

Autosuggest

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• Driving the Search Evolution from topical directory to site finder to task completion

• Acquiring and computing knowledge

• Understanding user intent and designing user interaction

• Minimizing Cost() i.e. the user efforts to accomplish a task

• Microsoft Web N-gram Services • 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

• Bing-MSR Fellowships

• Conference/Workshop Travel grants

• Check http://research.microsoft.com/web-ngram for more details beginning August