| ## Structure of the Data | |
| Each dialogue is represented as a json object with the following fields: | |
| * **dialogue\_id** - A unique identifier for a dialogue. | |
| * **turns** - A list of annotated agent and user utterance pairs having the | |
| following fields: | |
| * **system\_acts** - A list of system actions. An action consists of an | |
| action type, and optional slot and value arguments. Each action has the | |
| following fields: | |
| * **type** - An action type. Possible values are listed below. | |
| * **slot** - Optional slot argument. | |
| * **value** - Optional value argument. If value is present, slot must | |
| be present. | |
| * **system\_utterance** - The system utterance having the following | |
| fields. | |
| * **text** - The text of the utterance. | |
| * **tokens** - A list containing tokenized version of text. | |
| * **slots** - A list containing locations of mentions of values | |
| corresponding to slots in the utterance, having the following | |
| fields: | |
| * **slot** - The name of the slot | |
| * **start** - The index of the first token corresponding to a slot | |
| value in the tokens list. | |
| * **exclusive\_end** - The index of the token succeeding the last | |
| token corresponding to the slot value in the tokens list. In | |
| python, `tokens[start:exclusive_end]` gives the tokens for slot | |
| value. | |
| * **user\_acts** - A list of user actions. Has the same structure as | |
| system\_acts. | |
| * **user\_utterance** - The user utterance. It has three fields, similar | |
| to system\_utterance. | |
| * **user_intents** - A list of user intents specified in the current turn. | |
| Possible values are listed below. | |
| * **dialogue\_state** - Contains the preferences for the different slots | |
| as specified by the user upto the current turn of the dialogue. | |
| Represented as a list containing: | |
| * **slot** - The name of the slot. | |
| * **value** - The value assigned to the slot. | |
| The list of action types is inspired from the Cambridge dialogue act schema | |
| ([DSTC2 Handbook](http://camdial.org/~mh521/dstc/downloads/handbook.pdf), Pg 19) | |
| . The possible values are: | |
| * AFFIRM | |
| * CANT\_UNDERSTAND | |
| * CONFIRM | |
| * INFORM | |
| * GOOD\_BYE | |
| * GREETING | |
| * NEGATE | |
| * OTHER | |
| * NOTIFY\_FAILURE | |
| * NOTIFY\_SUCCESS | |
| * OFFER | |
| * REQUEST | |
| * REQUEST\_ALTS | |
| * SELECT | |
| * THANK\_YOU | |
| The possible values of user intents are: | |
| * FIND\_RESTAURANT | |
| * RESERVE\_RESTAURANT | |