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A better example is "coffee cream" (Google fails on this one)
Well, what is it? I imagine lists with post-specifiers are near impossible to parse too: Coffee, instant Custard, powdered Sugar Bit contrived, but still.
What happened if I said "peanuts, butter". I expect two items, but will Alexa give one?
PS. I implemented something similar without machine learning and that's how i did it. With text it's easier though, i suppose in NLU it could have a parameter for "pause time between words" which could also contribute to a different conclusion.
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It's true that we do alter our speech to provide context clues, it is also true that without them we're _still_ capable of piecing them together. If someone says in a unnaturally drawn out way "I like peanut butter sandwhiches" then I will have no problem detecting the situation and then re-parsing it correctly.
The space is irrelevant. Consider the sentences: The black bird ate seeds. The blackbird flew at mach 3. Your brain thinks of these two words completely differently and it's only through conscious effort that you think of them together. They are different words even though they sound and are spelled the same, regardless of the space. A better example I think is "bear feet" vs "bare feet"
What happened if I said "peanuts, butter". I expect two items, but will Alexa give one?
Did Alexa figure out how to tell when I'm saying "Computer" to it vs. one of my friends? I want to be able to talk to my computer like in Star Trek, dammit.
I'm pretty sure you could do this in a standard LALR(1) grammar and give [peanut butter] precedence over [peanut] [butter].
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The space is irrelevant. Consider the sentences: The black bird ate seeds. The blackbird flew at mach 3. Your brain thinks of these two words completely differently and it's only through conscious effort that you think of them together. They are different words even though they sound and are spelled the same, regardless of the space. A better example I think is "bear feet" vs "bare feet"
I'm not convinced. It takes effort for me to break apart blackbird into two separate words in my head, as they are so commonly found together. When speaking "black bird" I would insert a long pause between the two and emphasise the "b" on bird to show that I'm not talking about a "blackbird".
What happened if I said "peanuts, butter". I expect two items, but will Alexa give one?
A better question is "coconut, milk" versus "coconut milk".