2.1. Emora STDM

Introduce Emora State Transition Dialogue Manager.

Emora State Transition Dialogue Manager (STDM) is a dialogue system development framework that seamlessly integrates intent classification, pattern recognition, state machine, and information state approaches to dialogue management and natural language understanding. It supports rapid prototyping and long-term team-based development workflows, catering to a wide range of developer expertise.

Figure 1 from Finch and Choi, SIGDIAL 2020.

Make sure you have the emora_stdm package installed from the Environment Setup.

References

• Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development, James D. Finch and Jinho D. Choi, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: System Demonstrations (SIGDIAL:DEMO), 2020.
• Emora STDM GitHub Repository