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  <Title>The Multimedia Articulation of Answers in a Natural Language Database Query System</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> It is useful to evaluate human-computer communication in light of Grice's cooperative principle and maxims \[Gri75\]. Recently there has been much interest in a &amp;quot;cooperative response&amp;quot; paradigm for interfaces to database query and expert systems \[Ste87\]. The most promising strategies in this area of investigation involve applying insights gained from psycholinguistics research in order to create better conversational human/computer interfaces. However, inventing adequate user modeling and inferencing systems for this purpose is no easy task, and much of the literature on the subject describes proposals for systems yet unimplemented or theoretical approaches which may depend heavily on a particular domain model. Our multimedia articulator consists of principled solutions which have been implemented in a domain independent manner and which produce answers that are reasonably relevant, informative, and conversational in style. Such a system makes it possible to begin to study users interacting with a question-answering application. null</Paragraph>
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