Internet Consultant: An Integrated Conversational Agent for Internet Exploration

Internet Consultant (IC) is a natural language system that helps the user to explore the internet resources. Externally IC behaves as a conversational agent that assists World Wide Web browsing. Internally it is a multi-agent system which consists of the following three agents; 1) Natural language interface (NLI) agent that understands user's utterance and extracts his/her goals, 2) Planning agent that generates and executes plans to achieve the goals, and 3) Information agent that chooses appropriate information resources on the Internet and retrieves required information from the resources. Since IC utilizes local databases as well as resources provided on the Internet as knowledge bases, theoretically it has unlimited knowledge bases.