Microsoft is poised to add machine-reading results to Microsoft Search ZDNet

For the past several years, Microsoft researchers have been focused on finding ways to make commercial use of machine-reading technology. It looks like some of that work is about to become commercialized in the form of bringing machine-reading comprehension into search results. Based on information in Microsoft's Ignite conference session list, Microsoft may be ready to show this off as soon as next week. Machine-reading comprehension involves the automatic understanding of text. It involves computer vision, natural-language understanding and other technologies.