{"id":396647,"date":"2017-07-14T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=396647"},"modified":"2017-07-19T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T05:17:54","slug":"microsoft-research-sigir-2017","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/microsoft-research-sigir-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research @ SIGIR 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tutorials:<\/strong> August 7, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshops:<\/strong> August 11, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keioplaza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keio Plaza Hotel<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutorials: August 7, 2017 Workshops: August 11, 2017 Venue:\u00a0Keio Plaza Hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":398480,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"msr_startdate":"2017-08-08","msr_enddate":"2017-08-10","msr_location":"Tokyo, Japan","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/attend\/registration\/","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13555],"msr-region":[197903],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-396647","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-search-information-retrieval","msr-region-asia-pacific","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<strong>Tutorials:<\/strong> August 7, 2017\r\n\r\n<strong>Workshops:<\/strong> August 11, 2017\r\n\r\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keioplaza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keio Plaza Hotel<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"The SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Conference\u00a0on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (<a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIGIR 2017<\/a>) is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2017 SIGIR event in Tokyo, Japan on August 8\u201310, 2017.\r\n<h2>Committee Chairs<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Program Chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryen White<\/a>, Microsoft Cortana<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Symposium on IR in practice (SIRIP) chair, Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Invited speakers<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/program\/program-at-a-glance\/#session-3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 3A: Search Interaction 2<\/a>\r\nAugust 9 @ 10:30 AM \u2013 12:10 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom A\r\nChair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/teevan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaime Teevan<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/program\/program-at-a-glance\/#session-6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 6B: Conversations and Question Answering<\/a>\r\nAugust 10 @ 11:10 AM \u2013 12:30 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom C\r\nChair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Bailey<\/a>, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>SIRIP<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>MAPping the Probability of Start-up Success\r\nAugust 10 @ 11:10 AM \u2013 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji\r\nSpeaker:\u00a0David Hawking, Microsoft Bing<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Search Without a Query \u2013 Powering Job Recommendations via Search Index at LinkedIn\r\nAugust 10 @ 11:10 AM \u2013 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji\r\nSpeakers: Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"},{"id":1,"name":"Tutorials & Workshops","content":"<h2>Tutorials<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/program\/tutorials\/#candidate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candidate Selection for Large Scale Personalized Search and Recommender Systems<\/a> | morning\r\nDhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn; Aman Grover, LinkedIn; Krishnaram Kenthapadi, LinkedIn<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/program\/tutorials\/#nn4ir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neural Networks for Information Retrieval (NN4IR)<\/a> | morning + afternoon\r\nPresenters:\u00a0Tom Kenter, University of Amsterdam; Alexey Borisov, University of Amsterdam; Christophe Van Gysel, University of Amsterdam; Mostafa Dehghani, University of Amsterdam; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft, University College London<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/program\/tutorials\/#ab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A\/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation<\/a> | afternoon\r\nPresenters:\u00a0Alex Deng, Microsoft; Pavel Dmitriev, Microsoft;\u00a0Somit Gupta, Microsoft; Ron Kohavi, Microsoft; Paul Raff, Microsoft; Lukas Vermeer, Booking.com<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Workshops<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/cair-ws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAIR\u201917: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval<\/a>\r\nOrganizers:\u00a0Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University; Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba; Filip Radlinski, Google; Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neu-ir.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neu-IR\u201917: Neural Information Retrieval<\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Nick Craswell, Microsoft; W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jiafeng Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"},{"id":2,"name":"Accepted Papers","content":"<h2>Long papers<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/leveraging-contextual-sentence-relations-extractive-summarization-using-neural-attention-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leveraging Contextual Sentence Relations for Extractive Summarization Using a Neural Attention Model\r\n<\/a>Pengjie Ren, Shandong University; Zhumin Chen, Shandong University; Zhaochun Ren, Data Science Lab, JD.com; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furu Wei<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia; Jun Ma, Shandong University; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/extracting-leveraging-user-interaction-sequences-search-satisfaction-prediction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">User Interaction Sequences for Search Satisfaction Prediction\r\n<\/a>Rishabh Mehrotra, University College London &amp; Microsoft Research; Imed Zitouni, Microsoft; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmed Hassan<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Ahmed El Kholy, Microsoft; Madian Khabsa, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/deep-semantic-hashing-generative-adversarial-networks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep Semantic Hashing with Generative Adversarial Networks\r\n<\/a>Zhaofan Qiu, University of Science and Technology of China; Yingwei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tiyao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ting Yao<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tmei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tao Mei<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/characterizing-predicting-enterprise-email-reply-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Characterizing and Predicting Enterprise Email Reply Behavior\r\n<\/a>Liu Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan T. Dumais<\/a>, Microsoft Research; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pauben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul N. Bennett<\/a>, Microsoft Research; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nUnderstanding and Modeling Success in Email Search\r\nJinyoung Kim, Snap Inc.; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nickcr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Craswell<\/a>, Microsoft; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Dumais<\/a>, Microsoft; Filip Radlinski, Microsoft; Fang Liu, Microsoft\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/accounting-correspondence-commented-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accounting for the Correspondence in Commented Data\r\n<\/a>Renqin Cai, University of Virginia; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chi Wang<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Hongning Wang, University of Virginia\r\n\r\nRetrieval Consistency in the Presence of Query Variations\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Bailey<\/a>, Microsoft; Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne; Falk Scholer, RMIT University\r\n\r\nBitFunnel: Revisiting Signatures for Search\r\nBob Goodwin, Microsoft; Michael Hopcroft, Microsoft; Dan Luu, Microsoft; Alex Clemmer, Heptio; Mihaela Curmei, Microsoft; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/samehe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sameh Elnikety<\/a>, Microsoft; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuxhe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuxiong He<\/a>, Microsoft\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/word-entity-duet-representations-document-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Word-Entity Duet Representations for Document Ranking\r\n<\/a>Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University; Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n<h2>Short papers<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/improving-search-engines-via-large-scale-physiological-sensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improving Search Engines via Large-Scale Physiological Sensing\r\n<\/a>Ryen W. White, Microsoft Cortana; Ryan Ma, Microsoft Bing\r\n\r\nLiveMaps \u2013 Converting Map Images into Interactive Maps\r\nMichael R Evans, Microsoft; Dragomir Yankov, Microsoft; Pavel Berkhin, Microsoft; Pavel Yudin, Microsoft; Florin Teodorescu, Microsoft; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuwei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wei Wu<\/a>, Microsoft\r\n\r\nSentence-level Sentiment Classification with Weak Supervision\r\nFangzhao Wu, Tsinghua University; Jia Zhang, Tsinghua University; Zhigang Yuan, Tsinghua University; Sixing Wu, Tsinghua University; Yongfeng Huang, Tsinghua University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/junyan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Yan<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/generalized-mixed-effect-models-personalizing-job-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Generalized Mixed Effect Models for Personalizing Job Search<\/a>\r\nAnkan Saha, LinkedIn Corporation; Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn Corporation\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/luandri-clean-lua-interface-indri-search-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luandri: A Clean Lua Interface to the Indri Search Engine\r\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bmitra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bhaskar Mitra<\/a>, Microsoft; Fernando Diaz, Spotify; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nickcr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Craswell<\/a>, Microsoft\r\n<h2>Demo papers<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/seeing-bot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeing Bot\r\n<\/a>Yingwei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China; Zhaofan Qiu, University of Science and Technology of China; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tiyao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ting Yao<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia; Houqiang Li, University of Science and Technology of China; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tmei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tao Mei<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia"}],"msr_startdate":"2017-08-08","msr_enddate":"2017-08-10","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Tokyo, Japan","msr_event_link":"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/attend\/registration\/","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"August 8, 2017","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"http:\/\/sigir.org\/sigir2017\/attend\/registration\/","msr_cta_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_bi_name":"Event Register","featured_image_thumbnail":"<img width=\"960\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SIGIR-2017-1.png\" class=\"img-object-cover\" alt=\"SIGIR 2017\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SIGIR-2017-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SIGIR-2017-1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SIGIR-2017-1-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SIGIR-2017-1-1024x384.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>","event_excerpt":"The SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Conference\u00a0on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. 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