BEIJING, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc.
(NYSE:SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"), an innovator in
search and a leader in China's internet industry, today
announced that it has won the Grand Prize at the MIND News
Recommendation Competition, a world-class competition on news
recommendation held by Microsoft Research Asia (MRSA) and
Microsoft News. This demonstrates Sogou's industry-leading
capabilities in search and recommendation.
The MIND News Recommendation Competition is committed to
promoting the research and practice related to news recommendation,
which is a challenging task due to the ever-accelerating complexity
of news information and updates, as well as the diverse and dynamic
interests of users. The competition requires participants to
improve news recommendation systems, based on a large-scale English
dataset, to provide users more personalized reading experience and
alleviate information overload. It has attracted top teams
worldwide, from countries such as China, South
Korea, Canada, France, and others.
As this year's Grand Prize winner, Sogou has proved its
technical capacity developed from years of in-depth research
and accumulated experience in search and recommendation algorithms.
The team adopted a multi-angle information modeling scheme in
the competition, integrating a single model with multiple
downsampling datasets, which achieved leading results in all
performance indicators.
Specifically, in terms of data processing, despite the
imbalance of positive and negative news samples, the Sogou team
innovatively used ⅕ negative instances, which generated
nearly the same results while greatly reduced training
time. In terms of text modeling, through leveraging BERT's BPR
tokenizer and the combination of DNN, DIN attention mechanism and
DLRM, Sogou team achieved higher accuracy of personalized news
recommendation.
These leading technologies have also been widely applied to
Sogou products, such as Sogou Search and Sogou Mobile Browser,
to provide more tailored recommendations to millions of users,
meeting users' needs and interests and helping them get
quality information online. Sogou will continue its
efforts to provide better products and improve user
experience with this set of cutting-edge
technologies.
About Sogou
Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) is an innovator in search and a leader
in China's internet industry. With
a mission to make it easy to communicate and get information, Sogou
has grown to become the second-largest search engine by mobile
queries and the fourth largest internet company by MAU in
China. Sogou has a wide range of
innovative products and services, including the Sogou Input Method,
which is the largest Chinese language input software for both
mobile and PC. Sogou is also at the forefront of AI development and
has made significant breakthroughs in voice and image technologies,
machine translation, and Q&A, which have been successfully
integrated into our products and services.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Serena Liu
Sogou
Public Relations
Tel: +86 10 5689 9999 (61958)
Email: press@sogou-inc.com
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