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Consider the sentence, \"Diabetes can be controlled through diet and exercise\" Identify the semantic ambiguity associated with it providing the necessary details involved in the ambiguity

Solution

Ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings in a single passage.

There are two types of ambiguity: Genuine ambiguities, where a sentence really can have two different meanings to an intelligent hearer, and \"computer\" ambiguities, where the meaning is entirely clear to a hearer but a computer detects more than one meaning. Genuine ambiguity is not a serious problem for NLP problems; it\'s comparatively rare, and you can\'t expect computers to do better with natural language than people. Computer ambiguity is a very serious problem; it is extremely common, and it is where computers do much much worse than humans.

Semantic ambiguity

Even after the syntax and the meanings of the individual words have been resolved, there are two ways of reading the sentence. \"Lucy owns a parrot that is larger than a cat\", \"a parrot\" is extenstensionally quantified, \"a cat\" is either universally quantified or means \"typical cats.\"

Diabetes can be controlled through diet and exercise.\"

In the above example \" can be controlled \"can modify the event of controlling, saying How and when it can be controlled and thus acts as an adjunct. It can also act as an argument of ‘control ’, specifying where the resulting dieting and exercising on account of the controlling the diabetes. It can also act as an adjunct modifying ‘diabetes ’, helping to specify which Type of controlling or exercising will help.