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  <Title>Conversational Sales Assistant for Online Shopping</Title>
  <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="intro">
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1. INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Natural language dialog has been used in many areas, such as for call-center/routing application (Carpenter &amp; Chu-Carroll 1998), email routing (Walker, Fromer &amp; Narayanan 1998), information retrieval and database access (Androutsopoulos &amp; Ritchie 1995), and for telephony banking (Zadrozny et al. 1998).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this demonstration, we present a natural language dialog interface to online shopping. Our user studies show natural language dialog to be a very effective means for negotiating user's requests and intentions in this domain.</Paragraph>
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