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Not forgetting the ambiguity in nearly all words, where context
distinguishes e.g. in the word <br>
<i>meat</i><br>
("uncooked red stuff" v. "brown stuff")<br>
or <br>
<i>onions</i><br>
between "ingredient" v. "crop" v. "commodity-for-trading" v.
"complement for hot-dogs"<br>
etc.<br>
Quantifying that sense of ambiguity would be tricky!<br>
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Cheers -- Mike <br>
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On 25/01/2012 19:33, FORT, Karen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I need to find this information (the proportion of ambiguous words in English and their frequency).
For example, we know that in French 8% of the words represent 30% of the ambiguity.
Of course, it's very rough, but it's only to have a rough idea.
Can somebody help me with this (of course, I searched for a ref but could not find anything precise)?
Thank you in advance,
Regards,
Karën FORT
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