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a [little] [old men]
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The sentence above has more than one way to interpret, that is: shape stuffed or doll polar bear, and the other meaning is the real polar
bear. The way to disambiguate ambiguity above are:
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if it means doll if it means a real polar bear
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Types of ambiguity The way to disambiguate
Ambiguity
Lexical ambiguity 1.
Homonym − Adding additional context
− Paraphrasing − Adding picture
2. Homophone
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