"Laat me mijn wekkers zien" is indeed a bit odd, but it makes sense if you think of it in the context of a voice assistant that displays information on a screen.
"putzen ist gut staub ist so schlecht mach jetzt deinen zauber sauber mein teppich"
This is complete nonsense. Mark Twain could have written it to make fun of the German language.
I think this feedback is helping me to realize that we should be more explicit about our philosophy of keeping some of the noise in the dataset and allowing people to filter based on judgments.
That said, people do say some strange and ungrammatical things to virtual assistants (not saying this example is representative per se), so it's nice to include some of the odd ones.
Thanks!
I guess what happened is a user of your system tried to be funny. In this utterance there are 3 short fully grammatical sentences. And a 4th one which is not very grammatical but fully understandable, commanding the device to clean the carpet :)
- Cleaning is good.
- Dust is so bad.
- Make your miracle.
- Cleanly my carpet. [1]
[1] original is an ungrammatical imperative
Some (more) human review would have been needed.
The Finnish samples are full of very weird utterances, too. Some like people might have written over 50 years ago, but nobody would speak like this.
Maybe they were reviewed on Mechanical turk with moderate requirements / payment? Well, you get what you pay for...
with virtual assistants and the likes appearing more and more around one can wonder whether a new language/dialect can emerge for that setting.
[1] Personally I think it's a useless concept and the examples in the dataset mostly confirmed my view. Come on, a time zone conversion. Do we want to get so stupid that we cannot calculate it ourselves anymore?.Adjusting a light? Most of us sit too much and standing up is good for your body. Such technology is not only useless, but just bad. Not to mention the surveillance capitalism aspect which is proably also there or even prevailing .
With the right wand movements, it could sort of make sense.