The Integrated Systems team develops algorithms and evaluation methods for studying designs and performance of information management systems, online community services, and mobile and rich media applications. It involves researchers, designers and developers with expertise in information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, systems architecture, and human-computer interaction.
Projects
Community Buzz - revealing hot topics in online communities Community Buzz combines analysis of the content of online discussions and social structure of the communities to identify hot topics and visualize how they evolve over time.
Through search and Buzz cloud users can access relevant discussion threads and adverts linked to the search results and Buzz keywords.
Visualization of keyword trends enables the users to monitor the popularity of selected topics. Mesasages can be filtered based on the 'social status' of the author in thecommunity.
InSite Live! - visualizing and browsing through Web sites InSite is a tool for visualizing the structure of a Web site that helps Web site visitors to search and browse through the site.
It identifies sub-sites within a site and displays the topics they cover in order toassist the users in finding pages of interest.
It enables Web site administrators tolearn how users interact with their Web sites and how to improve thesite organization.
iPox - pace your steps, catch the heartbeat, and send a word around iPox is a multi-sensor device to wear on the wrist for capturing location, heartbeat, movement, and voice recordings.
The device is connected with the Smartphone via Bluetooth and enables the user to transmit data and messages and connect to Web services.
Economical and easy to use, iPox enables a wide variety of applications, from observing one's personal well-being to sharing one's experience with a wider community.
2009
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Socializing or Knowledge Sharing? Characterizing Social Intent in Community Question Answering, in Proceedings of ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, November 2009
- Chung Tong Lee, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Aleks Ignjatovic, Model for Voter Scoring and Best Answer Selection in Community Q&A Services, in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009, September 2009
- Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Jamie Costello, Towards methods for the collective gathering and quality control of relevance assessments, in Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Boston, MA, USA, July 19 - 23, 2009). SIGIR '09, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2009
- Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Vladimir Barash, Cody Dunne, Tony Capone, Adam Perer, and Eric Gleave, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, in The 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, June 2009
- Gerard Oleksik, Max L. Wilson, Craig Tashman, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Gabriella Kazai, Gavin Smyth, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Rachel Jones, Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices, in Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2009
- Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, and Nick Craswell, Wikipedia Pages as Entry Points for Book Search, in Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'09), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2009
2008
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Blaz Fortuna, Social Tagging Behaviour in Community-driven Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2008, December 2008
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, Rachel Jones, and Jamie Costello, Exploring Personal Broadcast Channels for Rich Media Sharing in Close Relationships, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multi-Media (MUM 2008), Sweeden, December 2008 , December 2008
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Careers
The Integrated Systems Group is always looking for interns and Post-docs. For more information, visit Microsoft Research Careers.
Contact Us
Integrated Systems Group, Microsoft Research
7 J J Thomson Ave
Cambridge CB3 0FB, UK
+44 1223 479700
Press
- Research Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange, MSDN Channel 9, July 2007.
- Making the Web People-Friendly, Microsoft Research News & Highlights, March 2007.
- Microsoft TechFest provides glimpse of future, IDG News, March 7, 2007.
- Community Buzz, Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media, March 2007.
- Tech Innovation At The Microsoft Research Tech Fair, InformationWeek, April 27, 2005.
- Working on the Hot Topics, EUReporter, , Vol 4, No. 11, Issue 08-12 March, 2004, pp. 7.
- Who's picking up the Bill?, The Guardian, May 2, 2002.
