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Word Sense Disambiguation: How NLP Understands Word Meaning in Context

Here is a sentence that will break most computers. “I went to the bank.” Did you go to a financial institution to withdraw money? Or did you sit down by the bank of a river? Both readings are perfectly valid. As a human, you’d resolve this instantly, probably without even noticing there was ambiguity to resolve. You’d use context, common sense, and everything else you know about the world to pick…

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