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Search has become the paradigm for finding and retrieving information
in personal computers, within corporations, and on the Internet.
Search is also becoming a paradigm for rediscovering information long
after people have forgotten where they put their documents, what they
named their files, or how they found out about a topic.
Microsoft Research has teams worldwide focusing on advancing the way
users interact with computing devices. This includes search, access, and
information management. Microsoft researchers are also investigating
ways to advance Internet-scale searching, working on the core
technologies for providing the most relevant and freshest search results
possible.
Our goal in this initiative is to bring the current Web search to the
next level by applying data mining, machine learning, computational
semantic, and knowledge discovery techniques to information analysis,
organization and retrieval while answering the following questions: What
is the paradigm which will enable search to cope with the dynamic nature
of the Web? How does one identify trends and bring the knowledge back to
the user?
Ultimately we hope to advance research in desktop and Web information
retrieval by understanding and advancing the scope, variety and quality
of the knowledge exchange among individuals and communities on computing
devices. The 2007 research themes of the Internet Technologies and
Cultures initiative (Search, Personalization, Voice) are summarized in
the Call to Action on Information Finding via Discovery, Recovery,
Delivery. This initiative is managed by Evelyne Viegas. |
