Researcher tools: code, datasets, & models
An index of datasets, SDKs, APIs and other open source code created by Microsoft researchers and shared with the broader academic community. We also maintain a collection highlighting some of the tools you’ll find here.
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Microsoft Scalable Fabric
Scalable Fabric is a task management system for the Windows desktop. A central focus area, defined by you, contains windows that behave in the traditional way. When you drag a window into the periphery, it…
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Microsoft Audio Watermarking Tool
This tool is based upon the publication: D. Kirovski and H.S. Malvar. Spread Spectrum Watermarking of Audio Signals. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.51, (no.4), pp.1020–33, 2003. As mentioned in the publication, it displays solid…
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SXM: C# Software Transactional Memory
Software Transactional Memory (STM) is an API for multithreaded computation in which shared data is synchronized without using locks. Threads synchronize by means of memory transactions, short-lived computations that either commit (take effect) or abort…
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SharpSAT Managed Code Benchmark
SharpSATbench is a CLI managed-code benchmark based on a clause-based satisfiability solver where the logic formula is written in Conjunctive Normal Form. SharpSATbench is compute-intensive, requiring a moderate-sized heap. There are 10,900 lines of code…
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Microsoft Research Cambridge Object Recognition Image Database
The Microsoft Research Cambridge Object Recognition Image Database contains a set of images (digital photographs) grouped into categories. Its intended use is research, in particular object recognition research. Last published: May 18, 2005.
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MSR NLP Empty Category Rules
The MSR NLP Empty Category Rules package includes a single source file containing G-language functions for computing empty categories on previously deserialized syntax trees formerly represented in the Penn Treebank text format. These rules are…
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Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus
This download consists of data only: a text file containing 5800 pairs of sentences which have been extracted from news sources on the web, along with human annotations indicating whether each pair captures a paraphrase/semantic…
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C# Software Transactional Memory
Software Transactional Memory (STM) is an API for multithreaded computation in which shared data is synchronized without using locks. Threads synchronize by means of memory transactions, short-lived computations that either commit (take effect) or abort…