As a new style of effective information presentations and a new multimodal information content production on the World Wide Web (WWW), multimodal presentation using interactive life-like agents with verbal conversation capability appears to be very attractive and important. For this purpose, we have developed Multimodal Presentation Markup Language (MPML), which allows many users to write attra...

Introduction Our project is concerned mainly with knowledge representation and the markup of information for webrelated uses, and potential applications of such markup. In particular, we are developing taxonomies of certain subsets of maritime information, using these taxonomies to develop markup vocabularies for these subsets, and developing sample applications (e.g., for information retrieval...

A markup language serves as a medium of communication for storing and publishing textual, numeric and other forms of data seamlessly. XML, the eXtensible Markup Language has become the lingua franca in web publishing. It is also a widely accepted standard for databases and document storage. There are many domain-specific markup languages designed using special XML tag sets. Standardization bodi...

April–June 2000 Copyright 2000. Lucent Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction High-level languages and compilers are a great success story of software engineering. One way of understanding this success is to see high-level languages as allowing a division of labor between problemdomain expertise, held by the application developer, and implementation expertise, held by the compiler ...

A program which helps in making conversation with the help of textual methods is referred to as chatbot. Chatbot responding a message quickly and that too without human intervention. Startups are inventing thousands chatbots order provide better service keep their customers busy by kind simple conversation. It also providing far services buying products. takes an input from user form keywords, ...

In this paper we introduce a programming language for Web document processing called WebL. WebL is a high level, object-oriented scripting language that incorporates two novel features: service combinators and a markup algebra. Service combinators are language constructs that provide reliable access to web services by mimicking a web surfer's behavior when a failure occurs while retrieving a pa...

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes an XML Schema for use by Int...

The authors have implemented one of a number of link services for use with the WWW, providing some open hypermedia facilities using native WWW technologies. Using this software in various projects with various information providers (some of whom have taken it up enthusiastically, others of whom remain sceptical) has raised questions about the link service. However, recent additions to the WWW, ...

Finding information on the World Wide Web is easy; finding relevant information is not. While search engines provide a more directed approach to resource discovery than browsing, the pages they identify as “matching” a query often have little relevance to the information being sought. To examine the relationship between query terms and the pages they match, the queries that were used to locate ...

The intrinsic value of a network is measured by the services which it provides to its users. Currently, there are two principal networks for communications: the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet. As these networks converge, new service ideas become apparent that are not possible in isolation on either of the networks. This paper discusses how the merging of the Internet ...