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  <Title>Computational Modelling of Structural Priming in Dialogue</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Syntactic priming effects are reliably present in dialogue even in computational models where the full range of syntactic rules is considered instead of selected constructions with known strong priming.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This is good news for dialogue systems, which tend to be task-oriented. Linguistically motivated 3For a more detailed analysis from the perspective of interactive alignment, see Reitter et al. (2006).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> systems can possibly exploit the user's tendency to repeat syntactic structures by anticipating repetition.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Future systems may also align their output with their recognition capabilities and actively align with the user to signal understanding. Parsers and realizers in natural language generation modules may make the most of priming if they respect important factors that influence priming effects, such as task-orientation of the dialogue and frequency of the syntactic rule.</Paragraph>
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