[Olympus developers 439]: Re: Running RavenClaw as a stand-alone unit

[Aitzaz Ahmad]

Thanks a lot Matt!

Aitzaz Ahmad
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"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 21:31, Matthew Marge <mrmarge at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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)
> >
> >
>
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