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Explanation and Interaction: The computer generation of Explanatory Dialogues

Alison Cawsey, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. vii + 232 pp., ISBN 0-262-03202-3, £26.95

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Jokinen, K. Explanation and Interaction: The computer generation of Explanatory Dialogues. Mach Translat 11, 251–256 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00387398

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