Disambiguator (Noun)
Meaning
(computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The disambiguator module in the chatbot's natural language processing system helped to resolve the ambiguity of the word "bank" by analyzing the surrounding context.
- A disambiguator is often used in machine translation applications to determine the correct translation of a word with multiple possible meanings.
- The disambiguator algorithm employed in the text analysis tool relied on part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition to disambiguate words with multiple senses.
- The development team implemented a disambiguator to improve the accuracy of their sentiment analysis model by reducing the impact of homographs on the results.
- The disambiguator component of the language model was trained on a large corpus of text data to learn the contextual cues that distinguish between different word senses.