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  <Title>Evaluating Automatic Dialogue Strategy Adaptation for a Spoken Dialogue System</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper described an empirical evaluation of MIMIC, an adaptive mixed initiative spoken dialogue system. We conducted two experiments that focused on evaluating the mixed initiative and automatic adaptation aspects of MIMIC and analyzed the results along three dimensions: performance features, discourse features, and initiative distribution. Our results showed that both the mixed initiative and automatic adaptation aspects of the system led to better performance in terms of user satisfaction and dialogue efficiency. In addition, we found that MIMIC's adaptation behavior better matched user expectations, more efficiently resolved anomalies in dialogues, and led to higher overall dialogue quality.</Paragraph>
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