It's a good thing some words have many meanings—ambiguous words actually make communication easier and may be an inevitable consequence of a language's evolution, according to a new SFI working paper ...

(Phys.org) —Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to help computers find meaning. The verb run ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your "fire" closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

We live in a world where almost all visual images, linguistic expressions and other objects are inherently ambiguous or uncertain. For instance, successful language processing requires resolving ...

When predicting something, ambiguous phrases such as "probably" "probably" "usually" "sometimes" are very useful, but there is room for interpretation of "possibility" that the term points. A data ...

This episode originally came out in April 2021.How one man's legal fight turned 26 ambiguous words from a 1996 law into the shield big tech companies use today. This key part of Section 230 of the ...