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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disambiguationnoun

    clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity

Wiktionary

  1. disambiguationnoun

    The removal of ambiguity.

    The lexical disambiguation relies on looking ahead to identify possible senses.

Wikipedia

  1. disambiguation

    Word-sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of identifying which sense of a word is meant in a sentence or other segment of context. In human language processing and cognition, it is usually subconscious/automatic but can often come to conscious attention when ambiguity impairs clarity of communication, given the pervasive polysemy in natural language. In computational linguistics, it is an open problem that affects other computer-related writing, such as discourse, improving relevance of search engines, anaphora resolution, coherence, and inference. Given that natural language requires reflection of neurological reality, as shaped by the abilities provided by the brain's neural networks, computer science has had a long-term challenge in developing the ability in computers to do natural language processing and machine learning. Many techniques have been researched, including dictionary-based methods that use the knowledge encoded in lexical resources, supervised machine learning methods in which a classifier is trained for each distinct word on a corpus of manually sense-annotated examples, and completely unsupervised methods that cluster occurrences of words, thereby inducing word senses. Among these, supervised learning approaches have been the most successful algorithms to date. Accuracy of current algorithms is difficult to state without a host of caveats. In English, accuracy at the coarse-grained (homograph) level is routinely above 90% (as of 2009), with some methods on particular homographs achieving over 96%. On finer-grained sense distinctions, top accuracies from 59.1% to 69.0% have been reported in evaluation exercises (SemEval-2007, Senseval-2), where the baseline accuracy of the simplest possible algorithm of always choosing the most frequent sense was 51.4% and 57%, respectively.

ChatGPT

  1. disambiguation

    Disambiguation is the process of removing ambiguity or uncertainty from a situation, especially in language, by making something clear and understandable. It involves distinguishing between different meanings of words or phrases that could be interpreted in more than one way. It's a key concept in fields such as linguistics, computer science, communication, and artificial intelligence.

Wikidata

  1. Disambiguation

    Disambiguation refers to the process of splitting an audio stream into separate audio files. These files may or may not be tagged with metadata which gives information about the track, such as the title or artist.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disambiguation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disambiguation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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