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  <Title>MIMIC: An Adaptive Mixed Initiative Spoken Dialogue System for Information Queries</Title>
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we discussed MIMIC, an adaptive mixed-initiative spoken dialogue system. MIMIC's automatic adaptation capabilities allow it to employ appropriate strategies based on the cumulative effect of information dynamically extracted from user utterances during dialogue interactions, enabling MIMIC to provide more co-operative and satisfactory responses than existing non-adaptive systems. Furthermore, MIMIC was implemented as a general framework for information query systems by decoupling its initiative module from the goal selection process, while allowing the outcome of both processes to jointly determine the response strategies employed. This feature enables easy modification to MIMIC's adaptation behavior, thus allowing the framework to be used for rapid development and comparisons  of experimental prototypes of spoken dialogue systems.</Paragraph>
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