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  <Title>Criterion for Judging Request Intention in Response texts of Open-ended Questionnaires</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have developed a criterion for judging request intentions. We evaluated this criterion from three points of view. The first evaluation was to analyze the data applying the criterion by a single judge.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> From this analysis, it was found that this criterion makes it possible to extract requests and that the coverage can be guaranteed compared with previous studies. Moreover, a corpus was prepared based on the analysis and was used for a machine learning experiment. From this experiment results, we confirmed the criterion using a paraphrase was objective.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Furthermore, by different judges, the second evaluation was made from the experiment conducted by three subjects. The rate of agreement for the paraphrasability was high, which indicated that the results of requests extraction were re-created using the criterion. This proves the reproducibility of the criterion.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> In the third experiment, two subjects judged the sentences without using the criterion to see whether or not there was a request in each response sentence. A comparison of the results of the second and the third experiments showed that a higher rate of agreement was obtained with the method using the criterion. This confirmed the effectiveness of the criterion.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> In future work, we will analyze &amp;quot;motives for request&amp;quot; sentences found from the examinations, and prepare a criterion for distinguishing between request motives and the contents of request intentions.</Paragraph>
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