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This paper provides an overview of a multimedia information processing system which will be applied to the tourism industry. It concentrates on the part of the system architecture which is responsible for selecting and retrieving multimedia data from remote and local heterogeneous data sources, and in particular, on the modules responsible for understanding and providing a consolidated answer to a user’s query. The understanding of queries requires the representation of information at several different levels and a communications language which is sufficiently flexible to represent user queries and subqueries at those different levels.
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Austin, W.J. et al. (1994). Processing Travel Queries in a Multimedia Information System. In: Schertler, W., Schmid, B., Tjoa, A.M., Werthner, H. (eds) Information and Communications Technologies in Tourism. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9343-3_11
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