The Text Mining, Search, and Navigation group performs research in information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. We work on new algorithms, and with large datasets, with the overall goal of enhancing the user's online experience.
Charter
Our charter is to explore and develop principled methods for improving online services such as Search and Advertising.
We are deeply involved with the academic community and we work closely with the Microsoft product teams. The challenges the product teams face present wonderful opportunities for research and the algorithms and techniques we develop open up new opportunities for product features. We are happiest when we both achieve significant academic impact and succeed in helping to positively impact millions of people in their use of the Web, intranets, email, and other online services.
Primary contact: Chris J.C. Burges
