Techniques are provided for determining and using interaction models.
Discourse functions, prosodic features and turn information are
determined from the speech information in a training corpus. Statistics,
decision trees, rules and/or various other methods are used to determine
a predictive interaction model based on the discourse functions, the
prosodic features and the turn information. Predictive interaction models
are optionally determined for individual users, genres, languages and/or
other characteristics of the speech information. The predictive
interaction model is useable to predict turns in a dialogue based on the
discourse functions and prosodic features identified in the speech
information. Speech information is presented and/or received based on the
predictive interaction model.