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Similarly, when I input "make me a sandwich", I got "tv_onoff" as the intent.

I am assuming however, that you can "train" the AI to suit your particular syntax depending on your app and bot's intended purposes. No doubt as more scenarios are fed into Wit's database, the parsing and intent selection will get better?!?

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I typed "Translate how much does that cost to French", which was one of the examples it showed me on the front page (under "Intent Parser", exactly as shown, no quotes), and it still gave me tv_onoff.

And "Turn on the TV please" is interpreted as "Turn the TV on to channel 'please'".

And don't invite any physicists round, because "Set the temperature to 293 K in my bedroom" results in a "temperature" value of 293000.

Still, the docs do indeed say you can train it (for sentiment and yes/no queries, at least, and hopefully other things too).

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