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  <Title>The MATE Annotation Workbench: User Requirements</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The M A'I'E project (Telemati('s L1~4-8370) aims to facilitate the re-use of spoken dialogue resour,'es an,l to foster etnl)iricai invesl, igation o1&amp;quot; (lialoguc by providing a workl)ench which ,:an l)e used to atlnotal.c and explore the. relationships among diflb.rent stru(-tures within a (lialoguc corl),m. This I)aper des~:ribe.s the hltended functionality of the workl)C/~nch by referen('e to the needs of several tyl)as of l)rO.sl)ectiw~ users. It should be considered a position i)aper about what kin(l of technological supl)ort the user (:olnnninity requires. The workl)en(:h itself is scheduled to be relea.se(l in I)et'emhe.r 19!)9, with further dew:lopnlent likely t)eyon(I that.</Paragraph>
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