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The Galaxy Communicator software infrastructure is a distributed, message-based, hub-and-spoke infrastructure optimized for constructing spoken dialogue systems. The Galaxy Communicator infrastructure is an extension and evolution of the distributed infrastructure for the MIT Galaxy system, and is being developed and maintained by the MITRE Corporation under the aegis of the DARPA Communicator program. The Galaxy Communicator infrastructure is available under a liberal open source license from the Galaxy Communicator Sourceforge site. This is version 3.3 of the Galaxy Communicator distribution.

This documentation is divided into four parts:

Before you begin, please read the introduction and overview, which will help you decide whether the Galaxy Communicator infrastructure can help you.


Getting help

There are two primary ways of getting help with Galaxy Communicator. First, there are public mailing lists for Galaxy Communicator which you can subscribe to. Second, you can send a message to bugs-darpacomm@linus.mitre.org. Please do not send messages directly to the individual developers; it's easier for us to track problems and respond promptly if you use the mailing lists or the bug queue.


Tutorial

If you intend to run the examples in the tutorial rather than simply read it, make sure that the Galaxy Communicator distribution has been installed so that the tutorial can be run.

Please note that the tutorial currently only runs on Unix, and that it assumes familiarity with the Unix command line.


Advanced topics

These topics are also presented in tutorial style, where possible.

Reference


Administration

All bug reports and requests for help should be sent to bugs-darpacomm@linus.mitre.org. Please do not contact members of the Communicator team directly.



Please send comments and suggestions to: bugs-darpacomm@linus.mitre.org
Last updated January 4, 2002.

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