Every story raises some questions and answers some other questions. And then doing that for all stories in the network. Each story could raise 10-30 questions. Each story could answer 10-30 questions. A Theory of Conversation To assist in managing questions a theory of conversation has been developed that says problem-solving dialogs have regularities.
Associational indices are the relational labels used for relative indexing.
The idea of relative indexing is to capture the shifts of focus that can occur in a conversation, changing the topic and yet remaining on the same subject. The set of relative indices is usually kept to a minimum in order to maintain generality. This was an interesting problem. An aerospace defense contractor on the west coast decided they would not be competitive within a particular Air Force program unless they were able to manufacture and assemble their aircraft faster. The following questions, under the following conversational categories, are arrayed before the user.