Tour Page 5 - Word Ambiguity Resolution
Words ambiguity is one of the key factors inhibiting accurate translation between
languages. To determine which of the possible meanings for a word is correct requires
a knowledge of the use of words.
Let's look at two illustrations. Look closely at the number of word senses found
for each subject and predicate. In the first example, there are 5 possible meanings
for the word women and 40 for the verb "to run".
The insensitive Italian woman is running.
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Drilling down to the meanings for the word "to run", a selection of those found are shown below:
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Here is a version in which the disambiguation solution is active. In this example,
you can see that there is only one meaning for each word "water" and "to run", despite
there being many senses in the dictionary. If you read the sense descriptions, both
seem accurate in this sentence.
The cold Italian water is running.
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