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  <Title>Tracing Actions Helps in Understanding Interactions</Title>
  <Section position="10" start_page="65" end_page="66" type="concl">
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8 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The presented approach allows dialogue understanding to take into account that the (human) dialogue participant the system is interacting with is (at least) equally able to diagnose errors and mismatches between observations and expectations and generates utterances intended to update the dialogue state according to these findings. Therefore, for establishing the coherence of a user utterance, there are always several options: firstly, the user continues the current solution, secondly, he diagnoses failure and reports about it, and thirdly, he switches the focus to another domain including discourse update and repair strategies.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> For these options, our approach devises a computational model able to explain dialogues in which coherence of turns is difficult analyze. In this way, more natural dialogues can be analyzed and generated. As the approach incorporates a model for how talking about actions is related to acting in a formalized domain, it serves as a basis  for constructing natural language assistance systems, e.g. for a great range of electronic devices.</Paragraph>
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