pkhdipraja / slurk

Slurk (think “slack for mechanical turk”…) is a lightweight and easily extensible chat server built especially for conducting multimodal dialogue experiments or data collections.

Slurk - A Lightweight Chat Server for Dialogue Experiments and Data Collection

Slurk (think “slack for mechanical turk”…) is a lightweight and easily extensible chat server built especially for conducting multimodal dialogue experiments or data collections. See Slurk: What’s this? for a description of the main concepts. Or jump right in with the Getting Started Guide!

The main idea of Slurk is to have a platform can be used without any change to the Slurk Server by creating task-specific bots. The bots can create rooms, custom chat layouts and control the distribution of users to rooms. In the following architecture overview the main components of Slurk are outlined.

Slurk is built in Python 3, on top of flask and flask-socketio.

If you want to build the documentation yourself, you need the packages sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme. Then you can create the documentation in the docs folder:

pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
cd docs
make html

The full documentation can then be found at docs/_build/

Happy slurking!