Table II.

Examples of dialogue for each semantic type

Clinical: You see, his pressure is dropping during his treatments. Is he eating a lot? Did he gain weight?

Technical: The machine is stuck. That’s where you spike it; the second port is the one where you draw from.

Backchannel: Hello. How are you doing? Yeah.

Miscellaneous: M wants me to remind you of your appointment today at 8:30. I’m just helping out ‘til they get back from vacation.