A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, utilizing a processor, textual data associated with a real-time conversation between a first participant and a second participant; receiving, utilizing the processor, an objective of the first participant for the real-time conversation between the first participant and the second participant; determining, utilizing the processor, a dialog act to be entered by the first participant at a current point in the real-time conversation that meets the objective, utilizing a model, including scoring a plurality of proposed dialog acts based on an amount that each proposed dialog act will change a probability of the objective being achieved during a current point in the real-time conversation, and determining the dialog act to be entered, based on the scoring; and returning, utilizing the processor, the dialog act to the first participant.
Recommending a dialog act using model-based textual analysis