Today I've had to build a list for a customer of what topics a default agent supports (and should be revised by the customer to adapt their agent to their wishes).
The list is based on the english template (with chitchat & userinfo modules activated). Other languages contain almost the same categories, but sometimes with different names.
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Affection: Love & Hate topics, like "I like you" or "Do you hate me?".
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Agent: Agent related speech, like asking who built him, if he has gender or it is a robot, or where the agent is from.
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Apology: Quite self-explaining, both good and bad user apologies and answers for them.
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Declaratives: Generic "catch" for declarative patterns, like "I live in xxxx", "I need xxxx" and such.
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Interrogatives: Same as previous one, but for interrogative patterns, like "Am I xxxx?" or "Can I xxxx?".
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Comedy: Jokes and humour-related questions and answers.
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Common Sense: This library is like a "smart" pack. It is used to try to make the agent feel more human and know answers to trick-questions like "what color is the sky?" or "What letter comes before...?".
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Cultural References: English and geek cultural references, like "All your base are belong to us"
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Deep Thoughts: Talking about death, religion or the meaning of life.
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Drugs: Self-explanatory.
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Emoticons: Responses for user-sent emoticons.
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Feedback: User providing the agent with feedback about his performance. For example, "You are not helpful".
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Manners: Polite answers, like when received "thanks".
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Miscellaneous: An enormous mixed-bag of uncategorized topics...
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MSN Specific Chat: Q&A about Messenger, the Activity window and other Messenger client features.
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Salutations: Self-explanatory.
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UserMood: Answers for good and bad user moods, like "I'm sick".
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Violence: Violence-related questions, like "I want to hurt people".
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Vulgarity: Self-explanatory, detecting different levels of insults.