subdialog

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ dialog.

Adjective

subdialog (not comparable)

1. Below the level of dialog.
   • 2016, Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui, Hung H. Bui, “Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.

Noun

subdialog (plural subdialogs)

1. A dialog making up part of a larger dialog.
2. (graphical user interface) A dialog box opened from another dialog box.

   From the Font dialog, click Advanced to open a subdialog with further typographical settings.