This paper describes a software component deployed as a Web service which enhances a user's online experience with a Virtual Storytelling Library through the use of voice-enabled Web-based conversational agents. The agents extract query answering information from story-specific XML/RDF metadata files and expand its coverage through inferences based on a variety of knowledge sources like the WordNet, Open Mind and by metasearching the Web for topics matching the story's content.
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