CSLI CALO Software User Documentation

Architecture Diagram

We recommend referring to the architecture diagram. This will give a complete visual description of the components provided.

Off-line Processing

We provide a dependency hierarchy diagram which positions our components along side the other components in the task discussion domain in terms of an information consumption chain. While in the future we would like to have a non-linear flow of information between components, for the current system, the diagram describes dependencies between components in with respect to required inputs and outputs of information.

Configuration

Some properties in the following config files will need to be modified to suit local installations of the csli software. Create a *.local.config file, and be sure to use the inherits=parent.config in it to get inherited parameters.

• calo/lib/config/calo.config
• calo/lib/config/mokb.config
• corpora/lib/config/corpora.config

Please refer to those files to see which configuration parameters may need to be specialized for your installation.

CSLI Major Subsystems

The following chart lists the major subsystems that make up our CALO software. The subsystems are shown in the architecture diagram as large grey boxes. Refer to these pages for a general overview of the subsystems.

CSLI Dialogue Understanding Agents

The following components are provided as individually executable agents in the Agent Manager execution window. The documentation

associated with each agent is listed in square brackets. The GUI windows which are part of each agent are listed in parentheses. The oaa agents which are part of each system are listed in curly braces.

Requirements

Please see the readme files to find out about third-party software and architectural requirements.

Building

There are no project-specific build issues for CALO. Please refer to the main CSLI README file for instructions on building our projects if you wish to change the source. Otherwise, just use the jars.

Running

You should be able to run all the CSLI CALO components by going to the calo/run directory and running the run-agent-manager.sh script or any of the individual agent scripts provided. The agent manager is a java program which allows you to start and stop the various component agents using a GUI.