Computational Culture

Live Labs is a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research (MSR) focused on applied research for Internet-enabled products and services at Microsoft. This Request for Proposals is in support of Live Labs’ collaboration with the academic research community and is focused on the Internet Search research area. To advance academic research and publication in the area of Internet Search and, more generally, in data mining, discovery and analysis, Microsoft intends to make available to RFP awardees an MSN Search query log excerpt, further described in the Asset description section, with 15 million queries sampled over several weeks and including:

1. Session ID
2. Time-stamp
3. Query string
4. Per-query search result click-through

In addition, Microsoft has already made available an MSN Search Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables programmatic access to MSN Search results for up to 10,000 queries per day with 50 search results per query. The SDK is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/msnsearch.
RFP awardees will be allowed up to 100,000 queries per day.

C4 will submit two proposals. The first one is planned to apply advanced machine learning to cultural trendspotting. The second will be an advanced multiplayer online game.

Via Microsoft Research