Ordinals not recognized when preceded by "the" about duckling

[jameshaydon]

Hi @stopachka
I'm unsure what sort of change to the rules would achieve this? The rules for plain ordinals are obviously fine, and the rule Time/EN/Rules.ruleTheDOMOrdinal is necessary for parsing things like "the 5th" as a date. Is there some way of ensuring the ordinal parse will achieve a high enough score in order not to be dropped during the ranking phase in the presence of the Time dimension?

[stopachka]

Hm, apologies @jameshaydon -- I misunderstood the issue. Will look into it and update you

[patapizza]

Hi @jameshaydon, Duckling returns only the top-level tokens, instead of all intermediate matches. As "the 4th" is a valid Time based on an Ordinal, it only returns the top Time token, and not the intermediate Ordinal ("4th"). Also Duckling doesn't use sentence-level features, and there might be false positives like for this example. Depending on your use case, you might need to call Duckling multiple times with different dimensions.

[stopachka]

Indeed seems like a bug. @jameshaydon feel free to take a stab at changing the rules to support this. Otherwise we will take a look shortly