GoDiS Manual Staffan Larsson

This manual is a work in progress.

1. INTRODUCTION This document is intended as a manual for depeloping applications for GoDiS, an Issue-based dialogue system. For an explanation of the issue-based theory and its implementation in GoDiS, see Larsson (2002).
2. INSTALLATION This section describes the steps necessary to download and install GoDiS and TrindiKit, the toolkit on which GoDiS is built.

   2.1 Downloading and installing TrindiKit

   TrindiKit can be accessed either via the TrindiKit webpage (http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/trindi//trindikit/), via the TrindiKit SourceForge website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/trindikit/), or via anonymous CVS from sourceforge. The latter is prefereable if you want to get the absolutely latest version; however, the documentation is not always up to date and some parts of the toolkit may be incomplete. If you want a well-documented release, the first two options are preferable.

   2.1.1 Accessing TrindiKit via anonymous CVS

   To checkout a read-only version of TrindiKit from the SourceForge CVS repository, do the following.

UNIX / LINUX

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.trindikit.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/trindikit login [supply no password if prompted] cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.trindikit.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/trindikit checkout trindikit

Windows

Unless you have already done so, download and install a CVS client; we prefer TortoiseCVS available at

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

2.2 Downloading and installing GoDiS

GoDiS currently has no webpage and is only available via anonymous CVS.

3 Getting started

3.1 Running an existing GoDiS application

3.3 Copying and modifying an existing GoDiS application

A good way to get started on your own application is to copy an existing application directory and successively replacing the application components.

4 The components of a GoDiS application

4.1 The GoDiS specification file

4.2 The start file

4.3 The domain resource

4.5 The device/database resource

4.4 The lexicon resource

4.X The speech recognition grammar resource

5 Elements of Issue-based dialogue management

5.3 Dialogue plans

5.1 Information state

5.2 Dialogue Move Engine

5.2.1 The update module

5.2.2 The selection module

5.3 Non-DME modules used by GoDiS

This section describes the modules supplied with TrindiKit that are used by GoDiS.

5.3.1 Input modules

5.3.2 Interpretation modules

5.3.3 Generation modules

5.3.4 Output modules

REFERENCES

Larsson, Staffan (2002): Issue-based Dialogue Management.