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Dialogue system grammars using GF resource.
AR 16/5/2006
24/5 Added multimodality.
==Functionality and purpose==
Dialogue system abstract syntax + concrete syntaxes for
different languages. One of them is Prolog (with some resemblance to
dialogue moves in GoDiS).
The purpose is to show how new systems can be built for new domains just
by specifying just two things:
- a domain ontology in abstract syntax
- a domain terminologies in concrete syntaxes
This is based on two library elements
- base dialogue grammars
- resource grammar libraries
In general, the only kind of elements that need to be added are
constants (0-place fun's) of the following categories from Dialogue.gf.
```
Kind ; -- e.g. Room
Object Kind ; -- e.g. Kitchen
Oper0 ; -- e.g. Stop
Oper1 Kind ; -- e.g. Play
Oper2 Kind Kind ; -- e.g. Add
Move ; -- e.g. MorningMode
```
==Files in this directory==
Files (for X = Eng, Fin, Fre, Prolog, Swe):
Files provided as library to build on:
```
Dialogue.gf -- base dialogue grammar
DialogueX.gf -- implementation instance
DialogueI.gf -- implementation functor
ResProlog.gf -- help constructs for Prolog terms
Weekday.gf -- untility grammar with weekdays
WeekdayX.gf
AuxDialogue.gf-- interface of auxiliary resource-defined opers
AuxX.gf -- instances for different languages
```
Files implementing two examples.
```
Agenda.gf -- application grammar for agenda
AgendaX.gf
Lights.gf -- application grammar for lights
Lights.gf
```
==Files needed to build a new application==
To build a new application for domain Dom, you thus need
```
Dom.gf -- introduce fun's in Kind, Object, Oper0, Oper1, Oper2
DomX.gf -- concrete syntax of the new fun's for language X
```
==Some tests==
You first need to do, with the latest resource grammar version,
- ``make present`` in ``lib/resource-1.0``
To test an application in GF, do e.g.
- ``make lights`` to make a package with all the Lights grammars
- ``make engcorpus`` to generate an English corpus
- ``make swecorpus`` to generate a Swedish corpus
Here are some other commands:
- ``i LightsEng.gf`` in current dir, to load a grammar
- ``gr | l -all`` to random-generate
- ``gt -depth=4 | pt -transform=typecheck | l -all`` to generate a corpus
- ``p "switch off all lights in the kitchen"`` to parse
- ``i LightsProlog.gf`` to load the Prolog version
- ``pg -printer=gsl -startcat=Move`` to print a Nuance grammar
- ``p -lang=LightsEng "switch off all lights" | pt -transform=solve | l -lang=LightsProlog``
to translate from English to Prolog
- ``si -tr -lang=LightsEng | p -cat=Move -lang=LightsEng | pt -transform=solve | l -lang=LightsProlog``
to translate English speech into Prolog
The last one is the coolest - but you may need to enable the ``speech_input`` command by installing ATK
and recompiling GF.