# XitXat

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#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

- **Point of Contact:** [Carme Armentano-Oller](carme.armentano@bsc.es) and [Carlos Rodríguez-Penagos](carlos.rodriguez1@bsc.es)
### Dataset Summary
XitXat is a conversacional dataset made of 950 chatbot conversations in 10 different domains. 
Conversations have been commissioned following the Wizard-of-Oz methods. 
User interactions have been labeled with a intent and rellevant slots.
XitXat dataset is released under [CC-by](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) licence. 

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
End-to-end dialog systems training, intent classification, anonymisation.

### Languages
The dataset is in Catalan (`ca-CA`)

## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
One json file.
10 domains.
950 conversations.
7365 labeled sentences.


### Data Fields
#### For the conversations

- `id` (str): Unique ID assigned to the conversation.
- `nom` (str): Name of the conversation.
- `número` (int): Number of the conversation.
- `frases` (list): List of the sentences.

#### For the sentences

- `id` (str): Unique ID assigned to the sentence.
- `text` (str): Text of the sentence.
- `actor` (str): Role. It can ve "agent" or "usuari" (user).
- `intent` (str): Assigned intent of the sentence.
- `slots`(list): Slots detected in the sentence.

#### For the slots

- `tag` (str): Label of the slot.
- `text` (str): Text of the slot.
- `Start_char` (int): Initial character of the span.
- `End_char` (int): Last character of the span.

### Data Splits

- XitXat.json


## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

We created this dataset to contribute to the development of language models in Catalan, a low-resource language.

### Source Data

Conversations were created for this dataset.

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

We commissioned these conversations to a specialized company. The same company did the first annotation. After a new version of the guidelines, we commissioned a revision of the annotations to an independent computational linguist.

#### Who are the source language producers?

Conversations were created for this dataset following the Wizard-of-Oz method.

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

Annotations where commissioned to a specialized company. They were made following the attached guidelines for [intents](https://github.com/projecte-aina/XitXat/blob/main/Guidelines%20anotaci%C3%B3%20v2%20Intents.pdf) and [slots](https://github.com/projecte-aina/XitXat/blob/main/Guidelines%20anotaci%C3%B3%20v3%20Slots.pdf).

#### Who are the annotators?

Annotations were commissioned to specialized professional annotators.

### Personal and Sensitive Information

No personal or sensitive information included.

There is some feigned personal information, created to give verisimilitude to the dataset.

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

This dataset contributes to the development of language models in Catalan, a low-resource language.

### Discussion of Biases

[N/A]

### Other Known Limitations

[N/A]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

Carlos Rodríguez-Penagos (carlos.rodriguez1@bsc.es) and Carme Armentano-Oller (carme.armentano@bsc.es) from [BSC-CNS](https://www.bsc.es/).


This work was funded by the [Departament de la Vicepresidència i de Polítiques Digitals i Territori de la Generalitat de Catalunya](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/inici/index.html) within the framework of [Projecte AINA](https://politiquesdigitals.gencat.cat/ca/economia/catalonia-ai/aina).


### Licensing Information

This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.

### Citation Information
[N/A]


[DOI][N/A](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4526223)