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  <Title>Dialogue Management in the Mercury Flight Reservation System</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="15" end_page="15" type="concl">
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5 Summary and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper described our strategy for dialogue management in the Mercury system. Overall, we have found it to be extremely powerful. While the Mercury system is still under active development, we feel that the anticipated extensions of capability will require a straightforward process of expansions in the dialogue control table; i.e., the&amp;quot;system has not attained an unmanageable degree of complexity in organization. We believe that this is a direct consequence of the use of the dialogue control table.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Mercury's turn manager deals with some issues, such as the interpretation of dates and times, that are of relevance to many other potential domains.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We envision that at some future time we will have available a large library of operations of general utility that can be inserted into a new system to greatly accelerate the time required to bring the new domain up to full operation.</Paragraph>
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