  This paper describes a new spoken dialog portal that connects systems
produced by the spoken dialog academic research community and gives them access
to real users. We introduce a distributed, multi-modal, multi-agent prototype
dialog framework that affords easy integration with various remote resources,
ranging from end-to-end dialog systems to external knowledge APIs. To date, the
DialPort portal has successfully connected to the multi-domain spoken dialog
system at Cambridge University, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) weather API and the Yelp API.
