Microsoft Live Labs - Search RFP Winners Chosen

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June 23, 2006

Microsoft Live Labs is pleased to announce the 12 winners of its Accelerating Search in Academic Research Request for Proposal (RFP) awards. The RFP, which generated more than 180 applications from all over the world, was issued to discover and fund academic research that will improve Internet search technologies, data mining, discovery and analysis. We are very fortunate to have found a wealth of academic talent and ideas for search and algorithm development.

And the winners are:

Proposal	Principal Investigators	Affiliations	Country
Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange	Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Anindya Ghose	New York University	USA
Discovering and Using Meta-Terms	Bruce Croft	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA
Deepening Search: From the Surface to the Deep Web	Kevin Chang	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
Entity and Relation Types in Web Search: Annotation, Indexing and Scoring Techniques	Soumen Chakrabarti	IIT Bombay	India
Incorporating Trust into Web Authority	Brian Davison	Lehigh University	USA
Mine Query/Click Log for Collaborative Internet Search	ChengXiang Zhai	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
Predictive Exploitation of Click-Through Knowledge	Alistair Moffat	University of Melbourne	Australia
Social Search: Bringing the Social Component to the Web	Gerd Stumme	University of Kassel (Knowledge and Data Engineering Group)	Germany
Statistical Machine Learning for User Modelling	Zoubin Ghahramani	University of Cambridge; Carnegie Mellon University; University College London	United Kingdom
The Truth is Out There: Aggregating Answers from Multiple Web Sources	Amelie Marian	Rutgers University	USA
Vinegar: Leading Indicators in Query Logs	Eytan Adar, Brian Bershad, Steven Gribble	University of Washington (CSE)	USA
VISP: Visualizing Information Search Processes	Lada Adamic, Suresh Bhavnani	University of Michigan (School of Information)	USA