... is a subgraph of the world knowledge, built in the course of the discourse on the basis of the utterances that have occurred. The tree both constrains and enables prediction of what is likely ... small training cor- pus, and the word can indeed occur with other topic types too. In these cases it is possible that the algo- rithm may go wrong: if none of the predicted topics of the utterance ... other system modules. However, we do not aim at robustness on a merely mechanical level of matching correct words, but rather, on the level of maintaining the information content of the...