noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
lexical
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Bottom-up parsers are very susceptible to problems arising from lexical ambiguity .
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Context, mediated by anaphora, can affect the resolution of lexical as well as structural ambiguity .
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In Chapters 5 and 6 the Chart is allowed to run to completion in order to determine the worst-case effects of lexical ambiguity .
syntactic
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Using the simple tagset of the current system the degree of syntactic ambiguity found is shown in table 4.4.
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Despite these modifications, syntactic ambiguity remains a large problem for generative systems.
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There are ways to reduce the problems posed by syntactic ambiguity .
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A similar technique is used to resolve anaphoric references and similar syntactic ambiguities .
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Many of the words in the lexicon have a high degree of syntactic ambiguity .
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The resolution of syntactic ambiguity is one of the tasks to be performed by semantic analysis.
■ VERB
avoid
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We have no need formally to be told to avoid ambiguities .
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Some statistical data is always included and, again, care is needed to avoid any ambiguity .
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Avoid obscurity of expression. Avoid ambiguity .
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To avoid ambiguity it is good practice to complete the comments section even if the current version is required.
create
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What I like is combining something strict with something free - it creates ambiguity and I love ambiguity.
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These two effects, output creation and output diversion, create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.
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These shifts are creating enormous ambiguity for those already in the workforce as well as those about to enter the business community.
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Their very flexibility creates an uncomfortable ambiguity for those who are part of them.
reduce
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The plan itself does serve as a binding mechanism to reduce ambiguity , but not too much should be expected of it.
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The aim is to reduce the pattern level ambiguity until only allowable words remain.
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The following chapters expand on the practical application of reducing the ambiguity produced from a pattern recogniser.
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The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
resolve
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The Frandon matter has been one of some embarrassment and I am glad it has been resolved , though the ambiguity remains.
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The final stage was to resolve the ambiguity , by formulating and asking appropriate questions in order to secure the missing information.
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It is likely that in normal discourse, the context of the sentences will help to resolve these potential ambiguities .
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Thus it is for the trader to resolve ambiguities in his price indications.
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It requires motivation towards making new connections as a way of resolving existing ambiguity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bottom-up parsers are very susceptible to problems arising from lexical ambiguity .
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But they recognised the ambiguities, and based their paper on wider evidence, and were prompted by concern for conservation.
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Grinding the coffee beans he pondered life's smaller ambiguities.
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The design of policy has to take into account the ambiguity of the welfare analysis outlined in the previous section.
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This description owes its quaint sound partly to its antiquity, and partly to ambiguity .
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Thus, a trace of ambiguity in the data can lower success rate.