---
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- en
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
license:
- cc-by-nc-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: EmpatheticDialogues
size_categories:
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source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- conversational
- question-answering
task_ids:
- dialogue-generation
- open-domain-qa
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  - name: context
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  - name: prompt
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  - name: speaker_idx
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  - name: selfeval
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---

# Dataset Card for "empathetic_dialogues"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/facebookresearch/EmpatheticDialogues](https://github.com/facebookresearch/EmpatheticDialogues)
- **Repository:** https://github.com/facebookresearch/EmpatheticDialogues
- **Paper:** [Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00207)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 28.02 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 25.13 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 53.15 MB

### Dataset Summary

PyTorch original implementation of Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: a New Benchmark and Dataset

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### default

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 28.02 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 25.13 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 53.15 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
    "context": "sentimental",
    "conv_id": "hit:0_conv:1",
    "prompt": "I remember going to the fireworks with my best friend. There was a lot of people_comma_ but it only felt like us in the world.",
    "selfeval": "5|5|5_2|2|5",
    "speaker_idx": 1,
    "tags": "",
    "utterance": "I remember going to see the fireworks with my best friend. It was the first time we ever spent time alone together. Although there was a lot of people_comma_ we felt like the only people in the world.",
    "utterance_idx": 1
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### default
- `conv_id`: a `string` feature.
- `utterance_idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `context`: a `string` feature.
- `prompt`: a `string` feature.
- `speaker_idx`: a `int32` feature.
- `utterance`: a `string` feature.
- `selfeval`: a `string` feature.
- `tags`: a `string` feature.

### Data Splits

| name  |train|validation|test |
|-------|----:|---------:|----:|
|default|76673|     12030|10943|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{rashkin-etal-2019-towards,
    title = "Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: A New Benchmark and Dataset",
    author = "Rashkin, Hannah  and
      Smith, Eric Michael  and
      Li, Margaret  and
      Boureau, Y-Lan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1534",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1534",
    pages = "5370--5381",
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@patrickvonplaten](https://github.com/patrickvonplaten), [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun) for adding this dataset.