Which of the following lists the four main categories of ambiguity in natural language?

Word-level, sentence-level, paragraph-level, and document-level

Phonetic, morphological, grammatical, and contextual

Structural, referential, lexical, and rhetorical

Lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic

Which sentence demonstrates semantic ambiguity?

I saw the man with the telescope.

A machine-translation system must translate the sentence 'The chicken is ready to eat' into a language that distinguishes between the chicken as the eater and the chicken as the meal. The system must decide which interpretation is correct. Which factor is most critical for resolving this ambiguity?

The surrounding context, such as whether the sentence appears in a recipe or a farm report

The part-of-speech tags of each word

The frequency of the word 'chicken' in the training corpus

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21foundation · easy
Which of the following lists the four main categories of ambiguity in natural language?
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22foundation · easy
Which category of ambiguity arises when a single word has multiple possible meanings?
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23application · medium
A customer-support chatbot is being trained on historical tickets. In one ticket, a user writes, 'My bank account is frozen.' The chatbot must determine whether 'frozen' refers to the account being blocked or the account balance being locked due to a legal hold. Which type of ambiguity is the chatbot encountering?
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24foundation · easy
Which sentence demonstrates semantic ambiguity?
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25expert · hard
A machine-translation system must translate the sentence 'The chicken is ready to eat' into a language that distinguishes between the chicken as the eater and the chicken as the meal. The system must decide which interpretation is correct. Which factor is most critical for resolving this ambiguity?
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Questions 21–25

Which of the following lists the four main categories of ambiguity in natural language?

Which category of ambiguity arises when a single word has multiple possible meanings?

Which sentence demonstrates semantic ambiguity?

A machine-translation system must translate the sentence 'The chicken is ready to eat' into a language that distinguishes between the chicken as the eater and the chicken as the meal. The system must decide which interpretation is correct. Which factor is most critical for resolving this ambiguity?

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