... JaBot: a multilingual Java-based intelligent agent for Web sites Tim READ & Elena BARCENA Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras y sus Lingi isticas, UNED Senda del Rey s/n, Madrid ... of usage, and distributed operation across the Web (Read et al., 1997). These benefits make Java an ideal programming language for constructing Web- based computational linguistic applications ... relevant for their careers. As can be seen in the diagram below, JaBot has three modules: a natural language interface, a search engine and an interactive list of references to the Web pages...