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subdialog

subdialog adjective: below the level of dialog.

Adjective

subdialog (not comparable)

  1. Below the level of dialog.
    • The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and utterances are labeled at the subdialog level.2016, Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui, Hung H. Bui, “Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies”, in arXiv

Noun

subdialog (plural subdialogs)

  1. A dialog making up part of a larger dialog.
  2. A dialog box opened from another dialog box.
    • From the Font dialog, click Advanced to open a subdialog with further typographical settings.

Forms of subdialog

pluralsubdialogs

Origin of subdialog

From sub- + dialog.

Questions about subdialog

What does subdialog mean?
Subdialog means below the level of dialog.
What part of speech is subdialog?
Subdialog can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near subdialog in the dictionary

  1. subdial
  2. subdialect
  3. subdialectal
  4. subdialectally
  5. subdialects
  6. subdialog
  7. subdialogs
  8. subdialogue
  9. subdialogues
  10. subdials
  11. subdialyzer

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