The slurk Interaction Server Framework: Better Data for Better Dialog Models

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This paper presents the slurk software, a lightweight interaction server for setting up dialog data collections and running experiments.

• Slurk enables a multitude of settings including text-based, speech and video interaction between two or more humans or humans and bots, and a multimodal display area for presenting shared or private interactive context.
• The software is implemented in Python with an HTML and JS frontend that can easily be adapted to individual needs.
• It also provides a setup for pairing participants on common crowdworking platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and some example bot scripts for common interaction scenarios.