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Monday, 19th July 2010

Info Retrieval Research: Expansion of Web N-gram Project from Microsoft Research & Bing

Today, the ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Home Page) Conference got underway in Geneva, Switzerland and we're going to do our best to feature papers and presentations from the conference.

New on the Bing Community Blog:

The Microsoft Web N-gram service has been in beta since April and researchers, worldwide, have been developing amazing applications using this service. Here is an example featuring Multiword tag clouds developed by Dr. Li Ding from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

The Web N-gram services provide you access to:

+ Content types: Document Body, Document Title, Anchor Texts
+ Model types: Smoothed models
+ N-gram availability: unigram, bigram, trigram, N-gram with N=4, 5
+ Training size (Body): All documents indexed by Bing in the en-us market
+ Access: Hosted Services by Microsoft
+ Updates: Periodical updates

Late last year, we introduced a private beta testing of the Web N-gram Services. We are now expanding access in the Public Beta Web N-gram Services to include professors, students, and researchers from around the world.

Demo: Multi-word Tag Cloud from Government Dataset Titles

We sat down with Kuansan Wang, Principle Researcher from the Microsoft research team to discuss Web N-gram as well as some of the new announcements that are coming from SIGIR.

The video runs about four minutes and and can be found near the bottom of this blog post.

See Also: Web N-gram FAQ (Word Doc)

See Also: Data-Gov Wiki

Source: Microsoft Research / Bing Community Blog

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