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The SmartKom multimodal dialogue system offers access to a wide range of information and planning services. A significant subset of these are constituted by external data and service providers. The work presented herein describes the challenging task of integrating such external data and service sources to make them semantically accessible to other systems and users. We present the implemented multiagent system the corresponding knowledge-based extraction and integration approach. As a whole these agents cooperate to provide users with topical high-quality information via unified and intuitively usable interfaces such as the SmartKom system.
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Aras, H., Chandrasekhara, V., Krüger, S., Malaka, R., Porzel, R. (2006). Intelligent Integration of External Data and Services into SmartKom. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36678-4_24
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