Scott Prevost is the Principal Development Manager at Bing. The document discusses Bing's work on query understanding, document and content understanding, and improving the user experience through disambiguation, term expansion, entity detection, and handling flexible syntax and context to better satisfy users' informational needs with concise responses. It provides examples of how Bing summarizes and refines responses over time to provide more accurate information to users.

6. Type navigational, informational, transactional Scope general v. specific Context single query v. session w/refinements Syntax can I say the same thing in a variety of different ways? Disambiguation entities, attributes, actions

15. Query : who mocked sarah palin

16. Query : Barack Obama stimulus package Concise, but misleading The...debate over the Economic Stimulus Package has been going on forever... Concise It seems like…the debate over the Economic Stimulus Package has been going on forever… Too long? It seems like the tumultuous argument and debate over the Economic Stimulus Package has been going on forever, but it hasn't even been a whole month.

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