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If you're having a big party

   tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over
you may be a half hour late.


Haha, nice example! If you want to do this you'd better use our full platform Wit.ai [1], that will arbitrate competition between the datetime entity (`tomorrow at three`) and the number_of_person entity!

[1] https://wit.ai


As a human, without a colon that thing is ambiguous.

It can be:

    tomorrow at three thirty, people are coming over
or: tomorrow at three, thirty people are coming over


Totally. I guess that was my point, that it's completely ambiguous, so I was curious to see which interpretation the algorithm picked.




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