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  <Title>A New Strategy for Providing Definitions In Task-Oriented Dialogues</Title>
  <Section position="9" start_page="571" end_page="571" type="concl">
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9 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We claim that determining the most important things to say for the individual user is the most significant task in providing definitions in task-oriented dialogues. In thls paper we prasent a new strategy for generating definitions, using a weighting strategy that draws on a dynamically inferred model of the user's domain knowledge, task-related plans, and receptivity to different kinds of information. This strategy reflects our over-all hypothesis that beliefs about the appropriate content of a definition should guide selection of a rhetorical strategy, instead of the choice of a rhetorical strategy determining content. This approach will produce a system that exhibits cooperative, intelligent behavior by providing definitions tailored to the needs of the individual user.</Paragraph>
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