... (substantial) general-isation of the idea of passing smaller informationbits around, out of the domain of ASR and into thesystem as a whole. Some of the characterisations of the behaviour of ... axioms.3.3 Incremental UnitsSo far, all we have said about IUs is that they areholding a ‘minimal amount of characteristic input’(or, of course, a minimal amount of characteris-tic output, ... very nature, incre-mental. No dialogue agent (artificial or natural)processes whole dialogues, if only for the simplereason that dialogues are created incrementally, byparticipants taking...