Click to edit the title text format Create a simple TuTalk dialogue agent Pamela Jordan University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center

Agenda Try creating your own version of dialogue agent from demo yesterday Extend the dialogue agent

TuTalk Session Team Pam Jordan Yue Cui (Jenny) Brian Hall (Moses) Mike Ringenberg

Authoring basics Write recipes and concepts  Concepts are like the ingredient list in a cooking recipe  Recipe uses a simple referring expression (concept label) and must look at ingredient list for the details Recipe has one to many steps Step is an  Initiation that is optionally paired with an expected Response  Can be a pointer to another recipe

Examples of concept specifications (abstract) ask_share_appetizer [So, should we share an appetizer?] [I’d like to share an appetizer. What looks good to you?] skip_appetizer [phrase=minimal, I not appetizer] [lang=fr, Je n’ai pas le temps pour un amuse- gueule]

Example of a dialogue script (abstract) Response action: push to recipe named possible responses Recipe: select-appetizer Step: enthuse_about_appetizers Step: ask_share_appetizer [agree_to_share_appetizer] [skip_appetizer abort, ask-soup] [unknown abort, loose-temper] Step: agree-on-appetizer initiation Concept to realize or recognize Subrecipe: push to recipe named goal name

Import Corpus and Select Dialogue Under Tab Infomagnets: (top menu file: open: Load instance: select Coached Problem Solving Under Tab Topic Boundary will be  Asked about saving – say “yes”  Select dialogue 338 sub041122_16_3045.txt

Select a Topic for Authoring (1) Try moving around, adding, deleting topic boundaries (see TuTalk manual) Move to Author tab

Select a Topic for Authoring (2) Create a script file; a collection of recipes (top-menu:author:new script file) Create a template for a recipe (top- menu:author:new template)  Can have same goal name multiple times  Template name distinguishes between them

Select a Topic for Authoring (3) Append topic: (top menu Author: append conversation) Select topic to append: (select “cluster 7” from flow diagram: ok in lower right)

Merge Sentences Pair tutor/student sentences: (left mouse on SENTENCE label: drag up or down to SENTENCE label to pair: when turns green release) For tutor sentence with no student response, pair up tutor sentences temporarily Delete extra sentence at end: (right click on sentence: select sentence: right click again: delete sentence) Add concepts to each initiation and response: (right click to right or initiation or response: new concept: enter name)

Extend Existing Script: add new step Create new step at end (top-menu:author:insert pair) Move new step up one (use scrollbar on right to scroll so see labels for the two steps:left click on step label and drag above other step until see green line and drop it) Create new step initiation (right click to right of initiation display box:enter phrase for initiation concept: enter concept label) Create new step response (right click to right of response display box: enter phrase for response concept: enter concept label)

Extend Existing Script: add additional responses Add new response to step: (select add response to left of step) Create response concept: (right click next to new response: new concept: enter response phrase: ok: enter concept name: ok)

Extend Existing Script: add response action (1) Save template (top menu: save template) Create a new response template with one step (top menu: new template) Save new template (top menu: save template) Open template (top menu: open template) Attach new template to a response (right click to right of response: pick goal)

Extend Existing Script: add response action (2) Right click to right of response: pick goal Right click to right of response: display goal  If recipe is one wanted – select okay  If recipe is not one wanted – select cancel: re- pick goal with left click

Save, Compile & Test Save template (top menu: save template) Compile & test (top menu: compile & test: from database: select script: select goal/recipe: select test at bottom of xml window) Will automatically go to Test Dialogue tab Try out the dialogue