Disambiguation: The Key to Contextualization 1 DISAMBIGUATION The Key to ContextualizationDisambiguation: The Key to Contextualization 2 The Fundamentals of Disambiguation Disambiguation is the process of removing confusion around terms that express more than one meaning and can lead to different interpretations of the same string of text. The goal of this process it to match each term to the author’s expressed intent. A human being possesses the competence and capabilities to understand and disambiguate both the spoken and the written language based on several elements (e.g., intellect, memory, culture, context). On the contrary, a machine does not have a reference system to support its understanding of the meaning of words, sentences and whole documents. Therefore, machines nee

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