Alternate Terms (Primary Users):

Behavioral Profiling (Dept of Defense)
Working Memory (Medicine)
Behavioral Economics (Financial Industry)

Misnomers:

Executive Director can do n-grams, time series analysis, speech recognition, and virtual speech assistants, but the reverse is not true. 

Example Concept:

Executive Direction is responsible for tracking attention to the sensor and goal over time.  Sensory sources in the world are constantly changing over time, with each moment related to a particular action or state.  All are important and indicative only to their own specific goals which may or may not be continuous in time.  A conversation may take twists and turns.  Past behavior is no guarantee of future behavior.  Yet actions and words do have consequences in time. 

The very best virtual assistants, for example, struggle to track relevant question and answer intents over time.  Outside of the most scripted question prompts, they have extreme difficulty in following and switching conversation intent tracks.  Subject continuation is non-existent outside of the handful of computer-driven scripts.  No other known system can accommodate personnel-driven subject state continuations and abrupt changes.

Neurological Evidence:

Did you know that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region of the brain is centrally important for context-dependent memory?  This helps us to decide the nuances of when and where a retrieved memory pattern is appropriate given the specific circumstances. Structurally, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex shows significant feedback loops, possibly as a mechanism for keeping track of time contexts.    

Executive Director in action.

A conversation has twists and turns. Questions may subtly rely on prior information in the stream. But they may also be completely unrelated and start new directions or states. 

No static n-gram or virtual assistant could handle the above conversation turns. Yet a person follows easily.