Semantic Web Interaction over Internet Relay Chat

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Semantic Web Interaction overInternet Relay Chat

• Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Mutton
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Kent, Canterbury
• May 18, 2004

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

• Open, online chat system
• Millions of users around the world
• Users connect to servers, and chat in channels

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IRC Bots

• Relatively autonomous software programs that
  interact on channels
• Not distinguishable from users except by
  observing their behavior
• Serve a wide variety of purposes
• Logging conversations
• AI conversation
• Provide services to users (calculator, access to
  backend databases, etc)

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Bots for Semantic Web Interaction

• Access semantic web models
• FOAFbot
• Trustbot
• Interface to use web services
• Currency conversion
• Weather
• Language Translation
• Provide a fixed form of communicating a query, on
  the back end, access the semantic web model or
  web service, nicely format the result, and send a
  message back to the channel.

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Demo