Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Related work 2.1 Web Scale Information Retrieval 2.1 Web Scale Information Retrieval 2.2 Existing Datasets 2.2 Existing Datasets 3 MS Marco Web Search Dataset and 3.1 Document Preparation 3 MS Marco Web Search Dataset and 3.1 Document Preparation 3.2 Query Selection and Labeling 3.2 Query Selection and Labeling 3.3 Dataset Analysis 3.3 Dataset Analysis 3.4 New Challenges Raised by MS MARCO Web Search 3.4 New Challenges Raised by MS MARCO Web Search 4 Benchmark Results and 4.1 Environment Setup 4 Benchmark Results and 4.1 Environment Setup 4.2 Baseline Methods 4.2 Baseline Methods 4.3 Evaluation Metrics 4.3 Evaluation Metrics 4.4 Evaluation of Embedding Models and 4.5 Evaluation of ANN Algorithms 4.4 Evaluation of Embedding Models and 4.5 Evaluation of ANN Algorithms 4.6 Evaluation of End-to-end Performance 4.6 Evaluation of End-to-end Performance 5 Potential Biases and Limitations 5 Potential Biases and Limitations 6 Future Work and Conclusions, and References 6 Future Work and Conclusions, and References 6 FUTURE WORK AND CONCLUSIONS MS MARCO Web Search is the first web dataset that effectively meets the criteria of being large, real, and rich in terms of data quality. 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(1) Qi Chen, Microsoft Beijing, China;
(2) Xiubo Geng, Microsoft Beijing, China;
(3) Corby Rosset, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(4) Carolyn Buractaon, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(5) Jingwen Lu, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(6) Tao Shen, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia and the work was done at Microsoft;
(7) Kun Zhou, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(8) Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States and the work was done at Microsoft;
(9) Yeyun Gong, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(10) Paul Bennett, Spotify, New York, United States and the work was done at Microsoft;
(11) Nick Craswell, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(12) Xing Xie, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(13) Fan Yang, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(14) Bryan Tower, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(15) Nikhil Rao, Microsoft, Mountain View, United States;
(16) Anlei Dong, Microsoft, Mountain View, United States;
(17) Wenqi Jiang, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
(18) Zheng Liu, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(19) Mingqin Li, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(20) Chuanjie Liu, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(21) Zengzhong Li, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(22) Rangan Majumder, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(23) Jennifer Neville, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(24) Andy Oakley, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(25) Knut Magne Risvik, Microsoft, Oslo, Norway;
(26) Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, Microsoft, Bengaluru, India;
(27) Manik Varma, Microsoft, Bengaluru, India;
(28) Yujing Wang, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(29) Linjun Yang, Microsoft, Redmond, United States;
(30) Mao Yang, Microsoft, Beijing, China;
(31) Ce Zhang, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland and the work was done at Microsoft. Authors: Authors: (1) Qi Chen, Microsoft Beijing, China; (2) Xiubo Geng, Microsoft Beijing, China; (3) Corby Rosset, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (4) Carolyn Buractaon, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (5) Jingwen Lu, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (6) Tao Shen, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia and the work was done at Microsoft; (7) Kun Zhou, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (8) Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States and the work was done at Microsoft; (9) Yeyun Gong, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (10) Paul Bennett, Spotify, New York, United States and the work was done at Microsoft; (11) Nick Craswell, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (12) Xing Xie, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (13) Fan Yang, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (14) Bryan Tower, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (15) Nikhil Rao, Microsoft, Mountain View, United States; (16) Anlei Dong, Microsoft, Mountain View, United States; (17) Wenqi Jiang, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; (18) Zheng Liu, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (19) Mingqin Li, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (20) Chuanjie Liu, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (21) Zengzhong Li, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (22) Rangan Majumder, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (23) Jennifer Neville, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (24) Andy Oakley, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (25) Knut Magne Risvik, Microsoft, Oslo, Norway; (26) Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, Microsoft, Bengaluru, India; (27) Manik Varma, Microsoft, Bengaluru, India; (28) Yujing Wang, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (29) Linjun Yang, Microsoft, Redmond, United States; (30) Mao Yang, Microsoft, Beijing, China; (31) Ce Zhang, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland and the work was done at Microsoft. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv available on arxiv

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