Building Infrastructure to Support Web-scale Data Mining for Search

Speaker:	Dr. Wei-Ying MA
		Principal Researcher
		Microsoft Research Asia

Title:		"Building Infrastructure to Support Web-scale
		 Data Mining for Search"

Date:		Friday, 9 February 2007

Time:		10:00am - 11:00am


Venue:		Room 4480 (via lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

To accelerate our innovation in search engines, we found it necessary to
build an infrastructure to provide large-scale data processing and data
management capabilities. The infrastructure we are currently building,
called Web Studio, will allow researchers and engineers to easily
implement and test their ideas or algorithms at web-scale without worrying
about low-level system issues. With this infrastructure, we are able to
apply web-scale data mining technologies to understand web content, link
structure and behaviors, and use the mined knowledge to improve the
performance of search engine. In this talk, I will also show some search
technologies developed at MSR Asia for structured vertical search and
multimedia search.


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Biography:

Dr. Wei-Ying Ma is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia where
he leads the Web Search & Data Mining Group. Prior to joining MSR Asia in
2001, Wei-Ying was with HP Labs where he worked in the field of multimedia
adaptation and distributed media services infrastructure. From 1994 to
1997 Wei-Ying was engaged in the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project
in UCSB while completing his Ph.D. Wei-Ying currently serves as an Editor
for the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Associate Editor for
ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS).  He has served on the
organizing and program committees of many international conferences
including ACM Multimedia, SIGIR, CIKM, WWW, and was the general co-chair
of the International Multimedia Modeling (MMM) Conference 2005 and
International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005. Over
the course of his career, Wei-Ying has published 5 book chapters and over
100 international journal and conference papers.