Chapter 4

Are Vague Words Ambiguous?

Steven L. Lytinen,     Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan

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A difficult problem facing the natural language understanding systems which use a frame-based representation scheme is the frame selection problem, i.e., the task of selecting the appropriate frame(s) to represent the meaning of a given input. In many previous natural language understanding systems, frame selection has been viewed as a lexical ambiguity problem. However in this approach, words that can refer to more than one possible frame are treated as ambiguous; there is a list of the possible frames to which they could refer in that part of the system’s knowledge. Frame selection ...

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