--data option fails.

Rasa version: 1.0.1

Rasa X version (if used & relevant):

Python version: 3.6.7

Operating system (windows, osx, …): Ubuntu 16.04

Issue:

1. –data option does not work in “rasa train”
2. err msg misleading: No NLU data given. Please provide NLU data in order to train a Rasa NLU model using the ‘–nlu’ argument.

Per http://rasa.com/docs/rasa/user-guide/command-line-interface/

If the ./data directory is present, “rasa train” builds by grabbing data from ./data, however, if ./data is removed, the build fails and displays the err msg despite the explicit use of --data option

And there is no such an option ‘–nlu’ in 1.0.

Error (including full traceback):

No NLU data given. Please provide NLU data in order to train a Rasa NLU model using the '--nlu' argument.

Command or request that led to error:

#!/bin/bash

rasa train -v \
    --config ./nlu_config.yml \
    --data ./NLU_train_data \
    --out ./models \
    nlu

Content of configuration file (config.yml) (if relevant):

language: "en"

pipeline: "supervised_embedding"

Content of domain file (domain.yml) (if relevant):

[Lambik]

Oh, through digging through the source code… I got it working, so this is a post for future google searchers:

There is indeed an --nlu option, that is not in the manual. The other thing that is important, is that my model filename has to end with .md

The final train command is: rasa train nlu --nlu /mnt/hgfs/backend/storage/app/rasa/nlu_test.md --out /mnt/hgfs/backend/storage/app/rasa --fixed-model-name nlu_test_model

The final model name will automatically get a .tar.gz extension.

So this issue can remain closed 😃 but maybe docs could be updated a bit.

[Lambik]

I have this same issue (rasa version 1.2.5).

My command line is this: rasa train --data /mnt/hgfs/backend/storage/app/rasa/nlu_test --out /mnt/hgfs/backend/storage/app/rasa --fixed-model-name nlu_test_model nlu

My nlu file (“nlu_test”) is simple:

## intent:16
- yes
- indeed
- of course
- that sounds good
- correct

## intent:7
- no
- never
- I don't think so
- don't like that
- no way
- not really

## intent:1
- bye
- goodbye
- see you around
- see you later

## intent:22
- hey
- hello
- hi
- good morning
- good evening
- hey there

## intent:30
- perfect
- very good
- great
- amazing
- wonderful
- I am feeling very good
- I am great
- I'm good

## intent:39
- sad
- very sad
- unhappy
- bad
- very bad
- awful
- terrible
- not very good
- extremely sad
- so sad

And I get the error No NLU data given. Please provide NLU data in order to train a Rasa NLU model using the '--nlu' argument.

There is no such thing as an --nlu parameter.

@akelad dunno if I should tag you…