Accessing the Web of Data through embodied virtual characters

Semantic Web

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 83-88

  Cimiano, Philipp ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interaction; Multimodal access; Semantic web; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881068032     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-2010-0008     Document Type: Article

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