To be honest you might well be able to deal with it without ML and it certainly would be easier to transfer to other languages you are right. There are a couple

To be honest you might well be able to deal with it without ML and it certainly would be easier to transfer to other languages you are right. There are a couple of reasons though: - I wanted to see if I could, I hadn't done any NLP before :) - Some ingredient strings can be complex or contain multiple quantities/ingredients e.g. "3 1/2 cups icing sugar, plus 1/2 cup for dusting". "3 ripe avocados or guacamole" - I am interested to see what can be done with the ingredient embedding, perhaps for ingredient substitution - Hopefully the ML algorithm can learn to identify the unit and quantity based on context rather than a fixed list of ingredients