{
  "id": 6747587,
  "title": "Word Sense Disambiguation: How NLP Understands Word Meaning in Context",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/word-sense-disambiguation-how-nlp-understands-word-meaning-in-context",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-11T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/javiagu13/word-sense-disambiguation-how-nlp-understands-word-meaning-in-context-130m"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}