This paper describes a system for managing: dialogue in a natural language interface. The proposed approach uses a dialogue manager as the overall control mecha- nism. The dialogue manager accesses domain independ- ent resources for interpretation, generation and back- ground system access. It also uses information from do- main dependent knowledge sources, which are custom- ized for various applications. Instead of using complex plan-based reasoning, the dialogue manager uses information about possible inter- action structures and information from the specific dia- logue situation to manage the dialogue. This is motivated from the analysis of a series of experiments where users interacted with a simulated natural language interface. The dialogue manager integrates information about segmen...

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