DARE Lab | Yannis Stavrakas

Yannis Stavrakas received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Athens, his MSc in Computer Science from University College London, and his PhD in Informatics from the National Technical University of Athens. He worked as a software engineer at a private company (1993-1997), as a research associate at the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (1998-2003), and as an adjunct professor at the University of Thessaly and the University of Central Greece (2004-2006).

Since 2007, he has been a researcher at the Information Management Systems Institute of the Research Center "Athena". He has participated as a scientific coordinator, technical manager, and developer in many research, commercial, and consulting projects. He has published more than sixty papers in international journals and conferences in areas relevant to data management.

Publications

VLDB
DatAgent: The Imminent Age of Intelligent Data Assistants

Mandamadiotis, Antonis, Eleftherakis, Stavroula, Glenis, Apostolos, Skoutas, Dimitrios, Stavrakas, Yannis, and Koutrika, Georgia

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

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In this demonstration, we present DatAgent, an intelligent data assistant system that allows users to ask queries in natural language, and can respond in natural language as well. Moreover, the system actively guides the user using different types of recommendations and hints, and learns from user actions. We will demonstrate different exploration scenarios that show how the system and the user engage in a human-like interaction inspired by the interaction paradigm of chatbots and virtual assistants.
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