Neural IR is one of the most vibrant areas of research at the intersection of NLP and IR, and it is an area that is likely to very rapidly have an impact on the technology industry, since search functionality is central to organizations large and small. The field is brand new, but it has already booked very impressive results. In 2019, both Google and Microsoft announced that their search engines now employ Neural IR techniques, and the field has only continued to advance since.

Neural IR is one of the most vibrant areas of research at the intersection of NLP and IR, and it is an area that is likely to very rapidly have an impact on the technology industry, since search functionality is central to organizations large and small. The field is brand new, but it has already booked very impressive results. In 2019, both Google and Microsoft announced that their search engines now employ Neural IR techniques, and the field has only continued to advance since.