English edit

Etymology edit

sub- +‎ dialog

Adjective edit

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 edit

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.