The next generation of search technology should be ubiquitous, accurate, flexible, relevant, intelligent, humane, and safe, according to the mission statement of the DReaMS Lab.
DReaMS Lab investigates Multimodal Dialogue Search Systems, focusing on three main approaches:
1. Dialogues
2. Reasoning
3. Multi-linguality for Search
The following are the core principles of the DReaMS Lab projects:
- Ubiquitous –ambient, anytime and anywhere
- Accurate – maximally correct & complete
- Flexible – take more than one type of modality as a query to retrieve relevant data in any type of modality
- Relevant - provide the most relevant information to the user, learn to adapt to user behavior, to understand the user search intents
- Intelligent – generate well-formed and meaningful responses based on retrieved information and context
- Humane – leverage human-curated knowledge bases, present human-readable results, adopt linguistically and culturally appropriate dialogue patterns
- Safe – preserve privacy, prevent undesirable or harmful content
The DREAMS Lab is a collaboration between VU Amsterdam, UvA, and the Huawei Consumer Business Group, a world-leading provider of cloud services for customers. The DReaMS Lab directors are Prof. Frank van Harmelen (frank.van.harmelen@vu.nl) and Prof. Maarten de Rijke (mderijke@uva.nl). The lab manager is Dr. Filip Ilievski (f.ilievski@vu.nl).