# The DialPort tools

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10918 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.10918/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Aug 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [DialoGPT: Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.00536/) (2019)
- [Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.12719/) (2020)
- [PLATO-2: Towards Building an Open-Domain Chatbot via Curriculum Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.16779/) (2020)
- [Conversational AI: The Science Behind the Alexa Prize](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03604/) (2018)
- [Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.06486/) (2020)
- [Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.10757/) (2018)
- [A Survey of NLP-Related Crowdsourcing HITs: what works and what does not](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.05241/) (2021)
- [Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.14403/) (2022)
- [DialCrowd 2.0: A Quality-Focused Dialog System Crowdsourcing Toolkit](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12551/) (2022)
- [DialPort: Connecting the Spoken Dialog Research Community to Real User Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.02562/) (2016)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The DialPort project http://dialport.org/, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), covers a group of tools and services that aim at fulfilling the needs of the dialog research community. Over the course of six years, several offerings have been created, including the DialPort Portal and DialCrowd. This paper describes these contributions, which will be demoed at SIGDIAL, including implementation, prior studies, corresponding discoveries, and the locations at which the tools will remain freely available to the community going forward.