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techniques will be applied to improve the current dialogue model and gain more flex-
ible interaction, with the expectation of compensating for the insufficient reliability of
automatic speech recognizers.
Acknowledgements. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Deutsche For-
schungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR8,
the department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, the department of
Neurology of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the SRH Health Centre
Bad Wimpfen, Germany.
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