Conversational event modeling

One or more tangible processor-readable storage media embodied with instructions for executing on one or more processors and circuits of a device a process for conversational event modeling in a computer-executed conversational system executed by one or more processors, the process comprising:

• receiving an input at an active dialog in a dialog stack of a conversational model, the dialog stack comprising a plurality of levels of dialogs;
• generating an event at the active dialog based on the input;
• propagating the event to a plurality of dialogs at different respective levels within the dialog stack;
• and
• selecting one of the plurality of dialogs to process the event.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a conversational event modeling module executed by the one or more processors to maintain a conversational model comprising a dialog stack in a memory of the system, the conversational event modeling module operative to:
• receive an input at an active dialog in the dialog stack of the conversational model, the dialog stack comprising a plurality of levels of dialogs;
• generate an event at the active dialog based on the input;
• propagate the event to a plurality of dialogs at different respective levels within the dialog stack;
• and
• select one of the plurality of dialogs to process the event.