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  <Title>A FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO COOPERATIVE RESPONSE GENERATION IN INFORMATION-SEEKING DIALOGUES</Title>
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CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The paper presented a plan-based consultation system whose main purpose is to generate cooperative answers on the basis of recognition of the user's plans and goals. In the system, repair dialogues due to misunderstandings of the user's intentions are prevented through a possible clarification dialogue.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In order to enhance the flexibility of the system, different detail levels have been provided for the answers, according to the competence of the various users. This has been done by specifying the difficulty degree of the various components of the plan library and by expanding the CMs until the information provided for the generation of an answer is suitable for the user. Van Beek and Cohen' notion of the relevance of ambiguity has been refined on the basis of the characteristics of the constraints present in the plans.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the future work, we are going to refine the notion of relevance of ambiguity in order to deal with the presence of different sequences of actions in the possible answers. Finally we are going to complete the proper answer generation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> A C KNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors are indebted to Leonardo Lesmo for many useful discussions on the topic presented in the paper. The authors are also grateful to the four anonimous referees for their useful comments.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> This research has been supported by CNR in the project Pianificazione Automatica.</Paragraph>
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