Research talk: Semantic search science: How Microsoft Bing AI is powering Azure Cognitive Search

Speaker: Alec Berntson, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. As part of our AI at Scale effort, we lean heavily on recent developments in large transformer-based language models to improve the relevance quality of Microsoft Bing. These improvements allow a search engine to go beyond keyword matching to searching using the semantic meaning behind words and content. We call this transformational ability “semantic search.” In this talk we’ll, explore how we are bringing semantic search capabilities to all Azure customers through Azure Cognitive Search. Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: