Trains 93 Corpus: Dialogue D26

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Situation: The dialogue is part of an experiment in development of interactive computer programs. Two people discuss how to fulfill a transportation order using a train and other resources. One (S) knows more about what is possible, and the other (U) is responsible for creating a plan.

Participants: Participants S and U (representing a hoped for System and a paid User) interact to produce a plan for using a train to accomplish a multi featured task.

Acknowledgment: The dialogue was extracted from a large collection, including the Trains 91 project, Trains 93 and a successor project, Trips. The research reports and other products can be found on the internet.

Web Access to the Source: This index site leads in many directions to resources: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/resources/ .

Features of this dialogue: This dialogue has some unusual details. It has a very long interval of simple pursuit of open games, where the goals being pursued cooperatively do not change. It also has, in Turn 17, a use of the Socratic Challenge game outside of any tutoring context.

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