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  <Title>Natural Language for Expert Systems: Comparisons with Database Systems</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The question of whether natural language database systems still provide a valuable environment for natural language research is not a simple one.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> As evidenced by the growing body of work on Gricean implicature and user modelling of plans, the database environment is still a good one for some unsolved natural language problems. Nevertheless, there are interesting natural language problems which cannot be properly addressed in the database environment. One of these is the problem of tailoring responses to a given user based on previous discourse and for this problem, the expert system provides a more suitable testbed.</Paragraph>
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