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  <Title>Interactive Discourse: Influence of the Social Context</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Progress on natural language interfaces can perhaps be stimulated or directed by imagining the ideal natural language system of the future. What features (or even design philosophies) should such a system have in order to become an integral part of our work environments? What scaled-down versions of these features might be possible in the near future in &amp;quot;simple service systems&amp;quot; \[2\]? These issues can be broken down into the following four questions: i. What are the significant features of the environment in which the system will reside? The system will be one participant in an intricate information network, depending on a continually reinforced shared complex of knowledge \[9\]. To be an integral part of this environment, the system must possess some of the shared knowledge and perhaps must participate in its reinforcement, e.g. via explanations, \[9\], \[2\].</Paragraph>
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