disambiguation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Disambiguation is the process of working out whch of a number of ambiguous meanings is correct. For example, in natural language processing the word "bow" in text could mean the wepan, the act of bending or the front of a ship; one might use the semantic simlarity with other words close in the text to disambiguate which is correct.

Used in Chap. 6: page 92; Chap. 13: pages 212, 217; Chap. 15: page 251; Chap. 22: page 370