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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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/RDFmetadata 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.</jats:p>