[Olympus developers 242]: tutorial 1 problem and a request for clarification

[lang@cs.rochester.edu]

Hello!

Below (and attached) are the messages concerning my problem.
Specifically, I am having problems getting the tutorial 1 to completely
work.  Here is the dialog that occurs:

> S:  Welcome to MyBus.
> S:  Where are you leaving from?
> cmu
> S:  Where are you going?
> downtown
> S:  Just a minute. Let me check that for you.
> S:  I'm sorry, I could not complete your request due to an internal error.
> S:  Where are you leaving from?
What does it mean 'internal error' and can I fix it?

Also, could you shed some light on how the destination_place is bound to
the result concept?  I am fairly certain that my program is is retaining
the information provided by the user, but I cannot seem to print out a
summary of it.

Thank you for your time,
Kate Lang









Hi Kate,

I'm not able to look at this right now, but maybe over the weekend.

Yes, continue sending these to the olympus address. You're likely to get a
response sooner that way.

Thanks,
-Thomas

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:00 AM, <lang at cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Hello Thomas,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply and I apologize for my late response. Yes,
> the spelling error was the problem with my program.  As for the tutorial
> this is the dialog that I have:
>
> S:  Welcome to MyBus.
> S:  Where are you leaving from?
> cmu
> S:  Where are you going?
> downtown
> S:  Just a minute. Let me check that for you.
> S:  I'm sorry, I could not complete your request due to an internal error.
> S:  Where are you leaving from?
>
> Also, could you shed some light on how the destination_place is bound to
> the result concept?  I am fairly certain that my program is is retaining
> the information provided by the user, but I cannot seem to print out a
> summary of it.
>
> Lastly, should I be replying to this email address, or should I continue
> sending questions to the olympus address?
>
> Thank you very much for your time,
> Kate Lang
>
> > Hello Kate,
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the "internal error", can you give more details
> > about
> > that?
> >
> > I noticed in the source file that you sent that a variable appears to be
> > declared as num_total_ppl and then used as total_num_ppl. Maybe this
> could
> > be the root of the error.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Thomas
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:07 PM, <lang at cs.rochester.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> My name is Katherine (Kate) Lang and I am a graduate student at the
> >> University of Rochester.  I am currently trying to adapt the Olympus
> >> system so that I may study the RavenClaw part.  However I am running
> >> into
> >> a couple problems.
> >>
> >> I have been working with tutorial 1 and on my computer I answer both the
> >> original and destination places, but then there is an internal error.
> >> Is
> >> this common?  Is there a fix for it?
> >>
> >> Lastly, I attempted to write my own dialogue system (which happens to be
> >> my goal for the summer) based on the tutorial 1 code, but I cannot get
> >> it
> >> to work.  This is asking a lot, and it is very short, but could you
> >> please
> >> take a look at it and/or tell me common mistakes that I should look out
> >> for?
> >>
> >> The problem is that the Welcome inform agent does not print out (I am
> >> using the tty option) anything when I have the request agent
> >> uncommented.
> >> If the request agent is commented out, then both of my inform agents
> >> work
> >> perfectly. I also tried something similar with a copy of RoomLine, but
> >> got
> >> the same results, so I do not believe that it is the internal error that
> >> I
> >> mentioned before.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your time,
> >> Kate Lang
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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