[Olympus developers 438]: Re: Running RavenClaw as a stand-alone unit

[Matthew Marge]

One option is to backup the current solution file and remove all
projects from the Olympus.sln file that are not dependencies to
RavenClaw. Note that libGalaxy is currently a dependency to the
RavenClaw project because RavenClaw uses the Galaxy communication
framework to send messages to other components.

When you complete a project using Olympus, it compiles a library
"RavenClaw.lib" and an executable "XYZDM.exe" where XYZ is the name of
your dialog task file. You can find these files in the bin/x86-nt
folders of your Olympus folder and your project folder, respectively.
The executable runs in the process monitor and does not function
independently in the Olympus framework currently. I think easiest
solution would be to use Galaxy, keep the current framework, and plug
in your own components for natural language understanding, ASR, and
synthesis.

Cheers,
Matt

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Aitzaz Ahmad <aitzaz.ahmad at kics.edu.pk> wrote:
> Thanks Matthew. But wouldn't that be the solution file that has all the
> Olympus projects? What if I want RavenClaw by itself (just RavenClaw and not
> the other parts)?
>
> Aitzaz Ahmad
> ----------
> "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans
> and a nice Chianti." Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs (1991)
>
>
> On 19 December 2013 03:01, Matthew Marge <mrmarge at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> If you built Olympus 2.5 correctly, the Olympus solution file will be
>> here: Olympus2.5\Build\cmake\Olympus.sln, which is a VS 2010 solution
>> file that shows the RavenClaw project in Visual Studio. CMake should
>> automatically generate this solution file.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Aitzaz Ahmad <aitzaz.ahmad at kics.edu.pk>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >       I'm working at the Center for Language Engineering based in the
>> > University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. The research
>> > facility is owned by Dr. Sarmad Hussain (PhD in Speech Science from
>> > Northwestern University '92). We're working on a speech processing
>> > project
>> > at center these days (Mobile based Weather Spoken Dialogue System in
>> > Urdu)
>> > which led us to study and explore Olympus.
>> >
>> >      Since we're developing our own ASR(using Sphinx 3) and TTS(using
>> > Festival) for Urdu, an area of particular interest in Olympus is the
>> > RavenClaw Dialogue Manager. I've been playing with the available
>> > tutorials
>> > and have made a toy system in English as well. But now I've been asked
>> > to
>> > plug out the Dialogue Manager component/module and to run it as a
>> > stand-alone application (i.e. without the other modules including the
>> > process monitor).
>> >
>> >     What I want for now is to be able to run RavenClaw as a console
>> > based
>> > stand-alone application without a GalaxyInterface and a Galaxy Hub. I've
>> > read the document in the Documentation folder of Olympus as well to
>> > develop
>> > some basic understanding as to how the DM works. When I tried to open
>> > the
>> > RavenClaw Visual Studio project file from
>> > "2.5\Libraries\RavenClaw\Utils" I
>> > got the following prompt:-
>> >
>> > "The source control provider associated with this solution could not be
>> > found. The projects will be treated as not under source control.
>> >
>> > Do you want to permanently remove the source control bindings from the
>> > projects?"
>> >
>> >     I chose "No" as an option. When the visual studio opened the project
>> > and
>> > I tried to open the DebugUtils.h,cpp files, I got another prompt saying
>> > the
>> > visual studio cannot open these files. Whereas, opening the files
>> > independently works just fine.
>> >
>> >    I'd really appreciate your help and feedback or any guidance that you
>> > might give so that I can run the system as a standalone application.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Aitzaz Ahmad
>> > ----------
>> > "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava
>> > beans
>> > and a nice Chianti." Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs (1991)
>
>