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  <Title>A Response to the Need for Summary Responses</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="434" end_page="435" type="concl">
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5. Concluding Remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A system incorporating the details explained above has been implemented and extensive experiments have been performed using a simple student database.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Every heuristic has demonstrated its usefulness in producing summary responses by being successful in this environment. The heuristics are domain-independent, and the knowledge base is easily modifiable to adapt to the requirements of a new user or database domain.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> For performance enhancement, the knowledge base may be augmented with an additional component for storing away the results of the preceding database interactions to obviate the need to search the database for every query. The extended knowledge base may be utilized for improved modelling of the user's beliefs and perceptions about the data by providing a mechanism  to introduce the user's own definitions and descriptive terminologies. Further research is necessary in order to obtain an acceptable structure for this additional component of the knowledge base. In addition, the factors linguistic or otherwise, that influence the appropriatehess of the generation of a summary response for a give question at a particular point in the interaction are also to be investigated.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Generation of summary responses has important implications if the interactions with a database management system are to have the properties and constraints normally associated with human dialogue.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Interactions with traditional database management systems lack the &amp;quot;intelligence&amp;quot; and elegance which we ascribe to human behaviour. We feel that providing summary responses will be an important tool to be used in achieving database interfaces that behave intelligently and co-operatively.</Paragraph>
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