When a human is confronted with a problem, questions will often come to mind. When a human hears a story or watches a video, questions will also come to mind. When we ask a question we hope to get an answer and, if we do, further questions will often come to mind. A series of questions and answers is a dialog.
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.