Ask HN: Dialogue system – books to read and some advice for Python developer

[frankyy]

Hello,

Me and my team were given financing for the project of building a system of dialogue assistant (narrow domain, non-English language, text communication). We have extensive experience with NLP from previous companies, and we have also read a lot of articles about assistants. We are still looking for some useful resources to help us design, create and test it. One of the items I found:"Designing Interactive Speech Systems: From First Ideas to User Testing" from 1998, I wonder if it is up to date - maybe you suggest some newer books?

The last question is rather a technical one - our stack is based on Python - I wonder whether to use Django or perhaps Flask (I have a bad experience with it)? Flask is certainly lighter, and probably faster, it will be easier to "pack" machine learning models. Django, on the other hand, gives me a lot of functionality (without additional work) which can be useful in later stages - admin panel, logging, middlewares etc. - but in my opinion Django will be "overengineered"for this purpose, and will be hard to "pack" machine learning models.

[PaulHoule]

Sounds like a fun project, I'd love to chat about it.

Many people run multiple web servers. Using Flask to run "web services" and Django to serve up more complex applications could be a very good idea.