Lecture02 Ambiguity
Lecture02 Ambiguity
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Lecture 2: Levels of Representation and Ambiguity
09/06/2024
• “Mouse”
fl
fi
fl
Lexical Ambiguity and
Translation
Lost in Translation
en: the attorney general
fr: L’avocat général
en: the general avocado
ru: ...
• Modi cation:
fi
Representing Modi cation
with Brackets
fi
More PP attachment
[Ban]
Ban on
on nude
[nudedancing
dancing]onongovernor’s
[governor’s
desk
desk]
NP NP NP
For that purpose, even though he himself was upstream, he accused the Lamb of stirring
up the water and keeping him from drinking. . .
Wolf
Lamb
Minsky 1975
Other tricky phenomena
• Winograd Schemes
The trophy wouldn't t into the suitcases because it was too big.
fi
Other tricky issues:
Language Variety
• Problem: Most NLP techniques were developed on
English (speci cally nancial news written in American
English in the 1990s), or other languages with many
resources.
• Non-standard English
• Idioms: throw in the towel, get cold feet, kick the bucket
• In ectional morphology: