Trains 93 Corpus: Dialogue D8

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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 short dialogue illustrates several infrequent features. There is, starting in turn 11, a game with multiple refusals of a bid of termination. And in Turn 22, there is completion of an utterance of the other participant.

TD26	PDF file	Transcript and Symbolic Analysis in Spreadsheet for download and manipulation
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