Referential Ambiguity
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- Anaphora: Anaphora, where a word refers to an earlier mentioned entity, is a common source of referential ambiguity.
- Vagueness: Referential ambiguity is related to vagueness, where the intended referent is not clearly specified.
- Linguistic Ambiguity: Referential ambiguity falls under the broader category of linguistic ambiguity, which encompasses various types of ambiguity in language.
- Semantics: Referential ambiguity is a semantic phenomenon related to the study of meaning in language.
- Equivocity: Referential ambiguity, where it is unclear what a word or phrase refers to, is a form of equivocity.
- Pragmatics: Referential ambiguity often requires considering pragmatic factors, such as context, to resolve.
- Lexical Ambiguity: Referential ambiguity is distinct from lexical ambiguity, which involves words with multiple meanings.
- Pronoun Resolution: Resolving referential ambiguity often involves pronoun resolution, determining the entity a pronoun refers to.
- Deixis: Deixis, where words like ‘this’ or ‘that’ refer to entities in the context, can also lead to referential ambiguity.
- Syntactic Ambiguity: Referential ambiguity is also different from syntactic ambiguity, which arises from the structure of a sentence.
- Context: Context plays a crucial role in resolving referential ambiguity by providing additional information to identify the intended referent.
- Natural Language Processing: Referential ambiguity is an important challenge in natural language processing, where systems must interpret and resolve ambiguous references.
- Ambiguity: Referential ambiguity is a type of ambiguity that arises when a referring expression can potentially refer to multiple entities.
- Computational Linguistics: Referential ambiguity is a topic studied in computational linguistics, which deals with computational models of language.
- Scope Ambiguity: Scope ambiguity, where the scope of a quantifier or operator is unclear, can sometimes lead to referential ambiguity.