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Exercise Sheet Ambiguity - Lexical Resource Semantics
www.lexical-resource-semantics.deExercise Sheet Ambiguity Manfred Sailer 24.4.2013 Task 1: The following words have more than one meaning. 1. Provide definitions for two of the meanings of the words. 2. For each meaning, give a clear example sentence. a. run b. bank c. must d. bright e. old Lexical ambiguity: We speak of lexical ambiguity if and only if _____ . Task 2: Find ...
Natural Language Processing - Tutorialspoint
www.tutorialspoint.comLexical Ambiguity The ambiguity of a single word is called lexical ambiguity. For example, treating the word silver as a noun, an adjective, or a verb. Syntactic Ambiguity This kind of ambiguity occurs when a sentence is parsed in different ways. For example, the sentence “The man saw the girl with the telescope”. It is ambiguous whether ...
The Meaning of Language - Harvard University
scholar.harvard.eduAmbiguity • Our semantic knowledge also tells us when words or phrases have more than one meaning, or are ambiguous – Syntactic ambiguity arises from multiple syntactic structures corresponding to the same string of words • The boy saw the man with the telescope – Lexical ambiguity arises from multiple meanings
LANGUAGE AND THE LAW - Division of Social Sciences
idiom.ucsd.edu1 LANGUAGE AND THE LAW by Sanford Schane Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1 - Ambiguity in Language and Misunderstanding in Law Three Law Cases of So-Called ‘Ambiguity’: Frigaliment (Lexical Ambiguity); Raffles
Unit 1 - Semantic Relationships
www.webdelprofesor.ula.veLexical ambiguity. It is the ambiguity that some sentences exhibit when they con-tain words that can be interpreted in more than one way (those words are either homony-mous or polysemous words). E.g., to be able to; to have the ability to do something a. We can fish. can (homonymy)