@conference {15288,
	title = {The START multimedia information system: Current technology and future directions},
	booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS 2002)},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002///},
	abstract = {To address the problem of information overload intoday{\textquoteright}s world, we have developed Start, a natural
language question answering system that provides
users with high-precision multimedia information ac-
cess through the use of natural language annota-
tions. To address the difficulty of accessing large
amounts of heterogeneous data, we have developed
Omnibase, which assists Start by integrating struc-
tured and semistructured Web databases into a sin-
gle, uniformly structured {\textquotedblleft}virtual database.{\textquotedblright} Our
ultimate goal is to develop a computer system that
acts like a {\textquotedblleft}smart reference librarian,{\textquotedblright} and we be-
lieve we have laid a firm foundation for achieving our
goal. This paper describes our current implemented
system and discusses future research directions.
},
	author = {Katz,B. and Jimmy Lin and Felshin,S.}
}
