Tools

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Name	Objective	Developer	Programming Language	Belief Description
Pydial	Dialogue system development	Cambridge University	Python	An open-source end-to-end statistical spoken dialogue system toolkit which provides implementations of statistical approaches for all dialogue system modules.
OpenDial	Dialogue system development	University of Oslo	Java	A Java-based, domain-independent toolkit for developing spoken dialogue systems.
Rasa Open Source	Dialogue system development	Rasa Technologies	Python	The most popular open source framework for building chat and voice-based AI assistants.
ConvLab	Dialogue system development	Tsinghua University Conversational AI group (THU-coai) and Microsoft Research (MSR)	Python	A flexible dialog system platform based on a unified data format for task-oriented dialog (TOD) datasets.
BotPress	Dialogue system development	Botpress, Inc.	TypeScript	The standard developer stack to build, run, and improve conversational AI applications.
DialBB	Dialogue system development	C4A Research Institute, Inc.	Python	A framework for building dialogue systems. It has been developed as an information technology educational material.
ELAN	Annotation	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics	Java	Enables adding an unlimited number of textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The content of annotations consists of Unicode text and annotation documents are stored in an XML format (EAF).
Virtual Human Toolkit	Multimodal dialouge system development	University of Southern California (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)		A collection of modules, tools, and libraries designed to aid and support researchers and developers with the creation of virtual human conversational characters. Designed for easy mixing and matching with a research project’s proprietary or 3rd-party software, the Toolkit provides a widely accepted platform on which new technologies can be built. It is our hope that, together as a research community, we can further develop and explore virtual human research and technologies.