17. The CIS of claim 16 , wherein the output renderer includes a text-to-speech generator.
16. A hardware-based chat information system (CIS), comprising: a speech recognition module configured to receive a speech-based user input and recognize at least a part of the speech-based user input and generate a recognized input; a dialog manager configured to generate at least one response to the recognized input; an event manager configured to monitor for occurrence of at least one triggering event and, based on the monitoring, identify the occurrence of the at least one triggering event, wherein identifying the occurrence of the at least one triggering event comprises recognizing one or more CIS operating modes, based on at least one of: the one or more CIS operating modes having never been used by the user, and the one or more CIS operating modes having not been used by the user over a predetermined period of time; a recommendation manager configured to generate at least one dialog recommendation based at least in part on the identification of the at least one triggering event, wherein the at least one dialog recommendation is related to the at least one triggering event; and an output renderer configured to: provide the at least one response, and provide the at least one dialog recommendation separate from the at least one response, receive, after the providing, either a selection of the dialog recommendation or a second speech-based user input that is based on a user speaking the at least one dialog recommendation, and provide a corresponding response in response to the receiving, wherein the corresponding response corresponds to the at least one dialog recommendation, and wherein the corresponding response is provided when either of the selection or the second speech-based user input is received.