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An iterative design methodology for user-friendly natural language office information applications

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      cover image ACM Transactions on Information Systems
      ACM Transactions on Information Systems  Volume 2, Issue 1
      Jan. 1984
      77 pages
      ISSN:1046-8188
      EISSN:1558-2868
      DOI:10.1145/357417
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