Lillian is a virtual librarian. She is designed to answer user queries about books, and particularly library holdings. As well as being able to tell a user if a library holds a particular book she can even deep link them to the library's own holdings page for the book, or refer them onto another libray or even Amazon if the book isn't available locally.
Lillian combines:
- The Discourse™ Natural Language Interface and Chatbot engine from Daden Limited
- The Sitepal™ animated avatar and text to speech system from Oddcast Inc
- Web services interfaces from:
- Talis
- Amazon
- OCLC
These web services define Lillian as a librarian, with other web services she could provide a natural language interface for a wholerange of other applications.
Lillian has been built for Talis' Mashing Up The Library competition, but of course we'd be interested in talking to anybody who might have a commercial use for her!
Read more about Lillian or talk to Lillian yourself.
