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  <Title>Flexible and Personalizable Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems</Title>
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3 Summary and Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> While there is inadequate space here to properly cover such a large topic as flexible and rapidly reconfigurable mixed-initiative dialogue systems, we hope that we have managed to convey our long-term research goals adequately and to provide the excitement that we ourselves feel in our current efforts to turn this vision into a reality. In fact, important subgoals that we have had for many years, such as incremental vocabulary update, grammar development and training through recycled resources, and tools to enable rapid development of effective dialogue interaction, are now finally bearing fruit. We believe that this is a critical moment in the life of dialogue system research, and we anticipate exciting breakthroughs in the near future, leading to systems that are not only useful but also easy to use and accommodating, such that users will prefer them over alternative means of acquiring their information needs.</Paragraph>
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