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We discuss in detail the rules we use to organise the dialogue and how we apply them to the requirements elicitation tool. We present an evaluation of this approach demonstrating improvements in usability during the elicitation process.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/93","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0093.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/93.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/bibtex/93","volume":{"slug":"1999","title":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1999","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/","year":1999,"location":"Stockholm, Sweden","dates":"","editors":"Thomas Dean","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Knowledge-based Applications","track":"Knowledge-based Applications","number":93,"pages":{"first":649,"last":653},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Chen, 1976] Peter Pin-Shan Chen. The entity-relationship model-Toward a unified view of data. 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