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  <Title>A Model For Generating Better Explanations</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Previous work in generating explanations from advice-giving systems has demonstrated that a cooperative system can and should infer the immediate goals and plans of an utterance (or discourse segment) and formulate a response in light of these goals and plans. The claim of this paper is that a cooperative response may also have to address a user's overall goals, plans, and preferences among those goals and plans. An algorithm is introduced that generates user-specific responses by reasoning about the goals, plans and preferences hypothesized about a user.</Paragraph>
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