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Realism About User Modeling

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User Models in Dialog Systems

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The object of this chapter is to explore the issues raised by user modeling from an analytic point of view. It is generally assumed that systems cooperating with human beings, and especially systems with natural language interfaces, need, and can get, user models. There is also a widespread assumption that the more user model the better and, correspondingly that, while we may not yet see quite how to do it, there is no problem in principle about being able to construct ever richer models.

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Jones, K.S. (1989). Realism About User Modeling. In: Kobsa, A., Wahlster, W. (eds) User Models in Dialog Systems. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83230-7_12

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