摘要: Lexical ambiguity is generally assumed to be widespread in natural languages but quantitative estimates have not been available. At least 32% of the words used English text were found ambiguous studies reported here. This figure probably very conservative. Temporary word definitions established for special purposes occurred 30% a sample texts.
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