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  <Title>A DIALOGUE MANAGER USING INITIATIVE-RESPONSE UNITS AND DISTRIBUTED CONTROL</Title>
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7 Customization
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    <Paragraph position="0"> One objective of this project is to develop a natural language interface that can be customized to different applications, i.e. a natural language interface shell to be used by a language engineer when creating an NLI for a specific application.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Customization is achieved by using different exchangeable/modifiable knowledge sources. Our intention is to build a library of prototypical knowledge sources and re-uSe much of the knowledge between different applications. For instance the lexicon for an SQL data base interface needs to be updated with data base content-specific terms but large parts of it are re-usable. Furthermore, we believe this to be possible not only for the lexicon and grammar, but also for the dialogue objects. The plans for a data base system will be much the same regardless of the domain. Customization, however, is not the topic of this paper. For more on this see Jrnsson (1991).</Paragraph>
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