Ambiguous Technical Term

An Ambiguous Technical Term is a technical term (mention?) that cannot be mapped to one word sense.

• See: Ambiguous Word, Unambiguous Term, Controlled Term, Linguistic Structural Disambiguation Task.

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References

2001

• (Jacquemin, 2001) ⇒ Christian Jacquemin. (2001). “Spotting and Discovering Terms Through Natural Language Processing." MIT Press. ISBN:0262100851
  • Structural ambiguity: A term is structurally ambiguous if it accepts several substructures with respect to a grammar of terms. For instance, given a grammar of noun phrases (NP -> NP N, NP -> N NP, NP -> N, N -> bone, N -> marrow, N -> cell), bone marrow cell is ambiguous because it accepts bone marrow and marrow cell as substructures.
  • Structural disambiguation: If a term is structurally ambiguous, the structural disambiguation of term is the selection of the substructures that are linguistically plausible.

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