Disambiguation Task
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A Disambiguation Task is a task that requires the mapping of an ambiguous reference to a unambiguous reference.
- AKA: Disambiguation.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Classification Task.
References
2009
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation
- In computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of identifying which sense of a word is used in any given sentence, when the word has a number of distinct senses.
- For example, consider two examples of the distinct senses that exist for the (written) word bass:
- 1. a type of fish
- 2. tones of low frequency
- and the sentences:
- 1. I went fishing for some sea bass
- 2. The bass line of the song is too weak
- To a human, it is obvious that the first sentence is using the word bass, as in the former sense above and in the second sentence, the word bass is being used as in the latter sense below. Developing algorithms to replicate this human ability can often be a difficult task.
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous
- Ambiguity (pronounced [æmbɪgˈjuɪtiː]) is the property of being ambiguous, where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication, is called ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way. Ambiguity is different from vagueness, which arises when the boundaries of meaning are indistinct. Ambiguity is context-dependent: the same linguistic item (be it a word, phrase, or sentence) may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another context. For a word, ambiguity typically refers to an unclear choice between different definitions as may be found in a dictionary. A sentence may be ambiguous due to different ways of parsing the same sequence of words.