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As opposed to implicit user profiling, there are only few explicit approaches, which furthermore suffer from problems that prevent them from being truly viable in practice. In this paper we present an approach to explicit user profiling by means of an adaptive natural language dialog. The dialog adapts to interests the user has mentioned and captures new, not predefined user information, which is...