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I just start playing with wit.ai NLP and Bot Engine but found some difficulties to make it running using the Polish language.

Especially the built-in entities/functions (like wit/number or wit/age-of-person) seem not to work at all.

So here is my question - Does it make any sense to use wit.ai for languages other than English?

or

Can I verify if wit.ai is trained for any particular language?

Deepak Mahakale
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Good question! Wit currently supports 50 languages: https://wit.ai/blog/2016/04/28/new-languages. Some of them are in Beta like Polish.

  • Wit relies heavily on machine learning for built-in entities like wit/location. So the more Polish apps (ie more validated expressions) the better it will be.
  • For some built-in entities like wit/datetime, wit/duration, wit/age-of-person, Wit uses a probabilistic parser that we open sourced here: duckling.wit.ai

Any help from the community is more than welcome... So if you want to participate, don't hesitate to look at the repo and check if your language is covered or needs improvement

l5t
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    The point is what does the "supports" mean. We had finally got a simple Polish story running (using some wit/xxxx entities) - but we had to wait about a day (!) to get "green light" and expected behavior... – Paul Paku Jul 16 '16 at 20:00