Dialogs

dialogs is an open-source module for natural language parsing and interpretation.

It is written in Python and, while not strictly required, is most useful in conjunction with an ontology server like oro-server.

Demo

• parser demo

Browse the source

You can browse on-line the source code: Dialogs on CGIT

Installation

Via robotpkg

The easiest way to install dialogs is through robotpkg:

robotpkg is a package management system for robotics module we use at the LAAS. It handles dependencies and compilation automatically. If you don't know it, have a look here.

You need to install the Work-In-Progress repository:

> cd $ROBOTPKG_BASE
> git clone http://trac.laas.fr/git/robots/robotpkg-wip wip

Once installed, you can add the dialogs package very easily:

> cd $ROBOTPKG_BASE/wip/dialogs
> make update

You're done!

From the sources

You can grab a snapshot of the sources on the public FTP: ftp://softs.laas.fr/pub/openrobots/dialogs/

Or, to get the latest version of dialogs, you can check-out the sources with GIT:

> git clone http://trac.laas.fr/git/robots/dialogs.git

dialogs uses the standard Python distutils mechanism:

> cd dialogs
> python setup.py install --prefix=$YOUR_PREFIX