To leverage tools of collaboration and social media to increase content creation, knowledge sharing, and interactivity that would lead to improving user experience within communities in web-based collaborative platforms. Projects will focus on integration, aggregation, ranking, ordering, tagging and blending content to form richer content within tools of social media. These tools will also facilitate searching through and browsing collaborative content. These technologies will be applied to different domains including, but not limited to, education.

DCS is a set of Services built to take advantage of the recent increase in digitized content and books. DCS provides services which enable users to easily discover information and extract knowledge from large digital content collections. The research agenda for DCS is primarily in Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.