The prompting texts for all read Wall Street Journal utterances in a session including the utterances' utterance-IDs and prompt IDs have been concatenated into a single file of the form, <SSS><T><EE>00.ptx. The format for a single prompting text entry in the .ptx file is as follows: <PROMPTING-TEXT> (<UTTERANCE-ID> <PROMPT-ID>)
The prompt ID is the sentence index designed by Doug Paul to reference
the Wall Street Journal texts in the ACL/DCI CD-ROM. The format for
this index is:
<YEAR>.<FILE-NUMBER>.<ARTICLE-NUMBER>
<PARAGRAPH-NUMBER>.<SENTENCE-NUMBER>
and an example sentence:
The December contract rose one point oh seven cents a pound to sixty-eight point six two cents at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (c13c020l 87.120.871013-0032.14.2)
The inclusion of both the utterance ID and prompt ID allows the utterance to be traced to its source sentence text and surrounding paragraph. There is one .ptx file for each speaker-session.