Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Bin Zhang

Ye-Yi Wang

Xiaodong He

Xiaolong Li

Isaac Blankensmith

Sherry Lin

Shihao Ji

James Lemieux

Itay Inbar

Thomas Hall

A method includes receiving, at a computing device, a transcription of an audio recording, where the transcription is divided into a plurality of text sections. The method additionally includes associating one or more tags with each text section of the plurality of text sections, where each associated tag is extracted from text of the transcription. The method also includes selecting a subset of the plurality of text sections based at least on the one or more tags associated with each text section of the plurality of text sections. The method further includes providing, for display on the computing device, a representation of the transcription and a scroller interface, where the scroller interface allows for navigation to each text section in the subset based on user navigation to a tag associated with the text section.

Scroller interface for transcription navigation

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for query simplification are provided. A search engine executed by a server receives a query. In response, the search engine determines whether the query is a long or hard query. For long or hard queries, the search engine drops one or more terms based on search engine logs. The search engine may utilize statistical models like machine translation, condition random fields, or max entropy, to identify the terms that should be dropped. The search engine obtains search results for the simplified query and transmits the results to a user that provided the query.

Query simplification

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