I warmly encourage anyone working on a dialogue system for the MiniLD this month to check out this interesting article series:

Designing a Dialogue System From Scratch

Part One:
http://tom-jubert.blogspot.com/2011/06/designing-dialogue-system-from-scratch.html

Part Two:
http://tom-jubert.blogspot.com/2011/06/designing-dialogue-system-from-scratch_08.html

Part Three:
http://tom-jubert.blogspot.com/2011/06/designing-dialogue-system-from-scratch_14.html

If you know of other similar articles, I’d love to hear about them!