The DialPort project is funded by the National Science Foundation (CNS-1512973) (https://www.ccrivo.org/) to provide the dialog research community access to tools, data and users. The DialPort project, developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California consists of four components: (1) the DialPort Portal which allows researchers to collect dialog data from real users, (2) DialCrowd which facilitates better data annotation from Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers, (3) DialPort Tools which acts as a repository of dialog data and tools, and (4) the REAL challenge which aims to introduce younger students to dialog research.
There have been several publications about DialPort and using the DialPort resources: