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Why am I getting Unknown data format for file data/stories.md now when I run a training command?

Here is my stories.md file, this error comes when I run it on the example places folder as well. Yet the format looks the same on your rasa.com page.

## A_Story_called
* uGreet
    - bGreet
* uThanks
    - bThanks
* uGoodbye
    - bGoodbye

## A_Story_called
* uGreet
    - bGreet
* uThanks+uGoodbye
    - bThanks+Goodbye

## A_Story_called
* uGreet
    - bGreet
* uGoodbye
    - bGoodbye

python -m rasa_nlu.train -c config.yml --data data -o models --fixed_model_name nlu --project current --verbose /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/h5py/init.py:36: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from float to np.floating is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type. from ._conv import register_converters as _register_converters 2018-12-02 09:51:20 INFO rasa_nlu.training_data.loading - Training data format of data/nlu_data.md is md 2018-12-02 09:51:20 INFO rasa_nlu.training_data.training_data - Training data stats: - intent examples: 78 (7 distinct intents) - Found intents: ‘uGoodbye’, ‘uThanks’, ‘uAddress’, ‘uOpeningHours’, ‘uSearchForPlace’, ‘uGreet’, ‘uRating’ - entity examples: 14 (1 distinct entities) - found entities: ‘query’

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/runpy.py”, line 193, in _run_module_as_main “main”, mod_spec) File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/runpy.py”, line 85, in_run_code exec(code, run_globals) File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa_nlu/train.py”, line 184, in num_threads=cmdline_args.num_threads) File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa_nlu/train.py”, line 153, in do_train training_data = load_data(data, cfg.language) File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa_nlu/training_data/loading.py”, line 55, in load_data data_sets = [_load(f, language) for f in files] File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa_nlu/training_data/loading.py”, line 55, in data_sets = [_load(f, language) for f in files] File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa_nlu/training_data/loading.py”, line 109, in _load raise ValueError(“Unknown data format for file {}”.format(filename)) ValueError: Unknown data format for file data/stories.md

2

your story format is wrong, you need to follow the story format,you can read the below link:

:slight_smile:

3

I realise the format is wrong, that’s what the message tells me.

The example on the Rasa page you supplied also fails with the same message, and as far as I can tell looks exactly the same format as my own,

The examples is the demos also fail with the same message, so perhaps the message is referring to something else?

4

Okay, so the answer is that I had mixed my stories.md file in with the data.nlu files by mistake. So the format wasn’t actually wrong for stories.md, but because stories.md was being parsed for nlu files.