Michael J Taylor

Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FB, England Email: mitaylor@microsoft.com Phone: +44 1223 479 802 (direct) Fax: +44 1223 479 999 WWW: http://research.microsoft.com/~mitaylor/

I currently work in the information retrieval group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. My main area of current activity is research and development of ranking algorithms for both enterprise and web search.

Selected Publications

SoftRank: Optimising Non-Smooth Ranking Metrics Michael J Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson and Tom Minka, Accepted for presentation at ACM WSDM 2008

Optimisation Methods for Ranking Functions with Multiple Parameters Michael J Taylor, H. Zaragoza, N. Craswell, S. Robertson, C. Burges Preseneted at CIKM 2006.

Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields. S. Robertson, H. Zaragoza and Michael J Taylor, CIKM 2004, Washington, DC, November 2004. In: D.A. Evans et al. (eds), CIKM 2004. ACM, 2004. (pp 42-49).