1.4 TRAINS General Dialogue Characteristics

We now discuss how TRAINS realizes the dialogue characteristics we introduced in Section 1.1.2

• 1.4.1 Turn-taking

• 1.4.2 Adjacency pairs and insertions

• 1.4.3 Grounding

• 1.4.4 Dialogue context

• 1.4.5 Ellipsis

• 1.4.6 Reference resolution

• 1.4.7 Mixed initiative