Category google-researches

Announcing the Patent Phrase Similarity Dataset

Posted Grigor Aslanyan, Software Engineer, Google Patent documents typically use legal and highly technical language, with context-dependent terms that may have meanings quite different from colloquial usage and even between different documents. The process of using traditional patent search methods…

High-Definition Segmentation in Google Meet

Posted by Tingbo Hou and Juhyun Lee, Software Engineers, Google In recent years video conferencing has played an increasingly important role in both work and personal communication for many users. Over the past two years, we have enhanced this experience…

UVQ: Measuring YouTube’s Perceptual Video Quality

Posted by Yilin Wang, Staff Software Engineer, YouTube and Feng Yang, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research Online video sharing platforms, like YouTube, need to understand perceptual video quality (i.e., a user’s subjective perception of video quality) in order to…

Rax: Composable Learning-to-Rank Using JAX

Posted by Rolf Jagerman and Honglei Zhuang, Software Engineers, Google Research Ranking is a core problem across a variety of domains, such as search engines, recommendation systems, or question answering. As such, researchers often utilize learning-to-rank (LTR), a set of…