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technologies from the lab have been transferred to microsoft products including office windows azure bing visual studio xbox kinect and windows phone as well as ai products such as xiaoice cortana and skype translator . microsoft research asia has excelled at creating a talent fostering environment where researchers are free to explore and pursue what interests them . this culture not only drives researchers to develop groundbreaking technologies and work at the cutting edge but has also made the lab a natural partner for universities and governments . microsoft research asia is committed to seeking broad and deep engagement with academic communities in order to promote collaboration cultivate innovation advance education and turn ideas into reality . follow microsoft research asia visit our chinese website publications 2016 mining the most influential k location set from massive trajectories yuhong li jie bao yanhua li yingcai wu zhiguo gong yu zheng in proceedings of the 24th acm international conference on advances in geographical information systems acm sigspatial 2016 october 31 2016 view abstract managing massive trajectories on the cloud jie bao ruiyuan li xiuwen yi yu zheng in proceedings of the 24th acm international conference on advances in geographical information systems acm sigspatial 2016 october 31 2016 view abstract unsupervised head modifier detection in search queries zhongyuan wang fang wang haixun wang zhirui hu jun yan fangtao li ji rong wen zhoujun li september 1 2016 view abstract rbpb regularization based pattern balancing method for event extraction jing liu chin yew lin in proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics acl acl association for computational linguistics august 7 2016 view abstract news citation recommendation with implicit and explicit semantics jing liu chin yew lin in proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics acl acl association for computational linguistics august 7 2016 view abstract knowledge base completion via coupled path ranking jing liu chin yew lin in proceedings of the 54th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics acl acl association for computational linguistics august 7 2016 view abstract dnn based prediction model for spatio temporal data junbo zhang yu zheng dekang qi ruiyuan li xiuwen yi in proceedings of the 24th acm international conference on advances in geographical information systems acm sigspatial 2016 acm sigspatial 2016 october 31 2016 view abstract exploring user experiences of active workstations a case study of under desk elliptical trainers woohyeok choi aejin song darren edge masaaki fukumoto uichin lee in proceedings of the 2016 acm international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing acm september 12 2016 view abstract fccf forecasting citywide crowd flows based on big data minh x. hoang yu zheng ambuj k. singh in proceeding of the 24rd acm international conference on advances in geographical information systems acm sigspatial 2016 acm sigspatial 2016 october 31 2016 view abstract automatic generation of visual textual presentation layout xuyong yang tao mei ying qing xu yong rui shipeng li march 1 2016 view abstract effective and efficient large scale dynamic city express siyuan zhang lu qin yu zheng hong cheng in ieee transaction on knowledge and data engineering ieee tkde august 25 2016 view abstract systematically debugging iot control system correctness for building automation mike chieh jan liang lei bu zhao li junbei zhang shi han b rje karlsson dongmei zhang feng zhao in buildsys acm conference on systems for energy efficient built environments acm november 17 2016 view abstract smartadp visual analytics of large scale taxi trajectories for selecting billboard locations dongyu liu di weng yuhong li jie bao yu zheng huaming qu yingcai wu in the ieee conference on visual analytics science and technology vast 2016 october 23 2016 view abstract letor a benchmark collection for research on learning to rank for information retrieval tao qin tie yan liu jun xu hang li august 9 2016 view abstract knowledge based semantic embedding for machine translation chen shi shujie liu shujie liu shuo ren shi feng mu li ming zhou xu sun houfeng wang acl association for computational linguistics august 8 2016 view abstract share and chat achieving human level video commenting by search and multi view embedding yehao li ting yao tao mei hongyang chao yong rui in acm international conference on multimedia acm mm august 7 2016 view abstract time matters multi scale temporalization of social media popularity bo wu wen huang cheng yongdong zhang tao mei in acm international conference on multimedia acm mm august 7 2016 view abstract deep semantic preserving and ranking based hashing for image retrieval ting yao fuchen long tao mei yong rui in international joint conference on artificial intelligence ijcai august 4 2016 view abstract jointly modeling embedding and translation to bridge video and language yingwei pan tao mei ting yao houqiang li yong rui in ieee international conference on computer vision and pattern recognition cvpr august 4 2016 view abstract learning deep intrinsic video representation by exploring temporal coherence and graph structure yingwei pan yehao li ting yao tao mei houqiang li yong rui in international joint conference on artificial intelligence ijcai august 4 2016 view abstract beyond object recognition visual sentiment analysis with deep coupled adjective and noun neural networks jingwen wang jianlong fu yong xu tao mei in international joint conference on artificial intelligence ijcai august 4 2016 view abstract segment level sequence modeling using gated recursive semi markov conditional random fields jingwei zhuo yong cao jun zhu bo zhang zaiqing nie acl association for computational linguistics august 1 2016 view abstract understanding short texts zhongyuan wang haixun wang in the association for computational linguistics acl tutorial august 1 2016 view abstract clicknp highly flexible and high performance network processing with reconfigurable hardware bojie li kun tan larry luo renqian luo yanqing peng ningyi xu yongqiang xiong peng chen yongqiang xiong peng cheng in acm sigcomm acm july 31 2016 view abstract mining 3d key pose motifs for action recognition chunyu wang yizhou wang alan yuille in cvpr 2016 july 29 2016 view abstract recognizing actions in 3d using action snippets and activated simplices chunyu wang yizhou wang alan yuille july 29 2016 view abstract an approach to pose based action recognition chunyu wang yizhou wang alan yuille july 29 2016 view abstract mining 3d key pose motifs for action recognition chunyu wang yizhou wang alan yuille july 29 2016 view abstract designing interactive multiswimmer exergames a case study woohyeok choi jeungmin oh taiwoo park seongjun kang miri moon uichin lee inseok hwang darren edge junehwa song in acm transactions on sensor networks tosn acm july 29 2016 view abstract advances in ad auction mechanism design for sponsored search wei chen july 21 2016 view abstract commonsense causal reasoning between short texts zhiyi luo yuchen sha kenny zhu seung won hwang zhongyuan wang in the 15th international conference on principles of knowledge representation and reasoning kr 2016 july 20 2016 view abstract on the depth of deep neural networks a theoretical view shizhao sun wei chen liwei wang xiaojiang liu tie yan liu in 30th international association for the advancement of artificial intelligence conference aaai july 17 2016 view abstract asynchronous accelerated stochastic gradient descent qi meng wei chen jingcheng yu taifeng wang zhi ming ma tie yan liu in international joint conference on artificial intelligence ijcai july 9 2016 view abstract pseudo sequence based light field image compression dong liu lizhi wang li li zhiwei xiong feng wu wenjun zeng in international conference on multimedia & expo grand challenge on light field image compression ieee institute of electrical and electronics engineers july 1 2016 view abstract the routing of