  This paper presents the slurk software, a lightweight interaction server for
setting up dialog data collections and running experiments. Slurk enables a
multitude of settings including text-based, speech and video interaction
between two or more humans or humans and bots, and a multimodal display area
for presenting shared or private interactive context. The software is
implemented in Python with an HTML and JS frontend that can easily be adapted
to individual needs. It also provides a setup for pairing participants on
common crowdworking platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and some example
bot scripts for common interaction scenarios.
