11 Feb 2004*
CS 3243 - Optional Lecture - NLP
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Ambiguity
lLexical ambiguity
l“the back of the room” vs. “back up your files”
l“In the interest of stimulating the economy, the government lowered the interest rate.”
lSyntactic ambiguity (structural ambiguity)
l“I smelled a wumpus in 2,2”
lSemantic ambiguity
l“the IBM lecture”
lPragmatic ambiguity
l“I’ll meet you next Friday”