Conversational Interface Agents for the Semantic Web - a Case Study

Breuing A, Pfeiffer T, Kopp S. Conversational Interface Agents for the Semantic Web - a Case Study. In: Bizer C, Joshi A, eds. Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008). Karlsruhe, Germany; 2008.The Semantic Web is about to become a rich source of knowledge whose potential will be squandered if it is not accessible for everyone. Intuitive interfaces like conversational agents are needed to better disseminate this knowledge, either on request or even proactively in a context-aware manner. This paper presents work on extending an existing conversational agent, Max, with abilities to access the Semantic Web via natural language communication