Verbs tenses was the first idea that came into my mind to specify the time of a news article, however, working on multiple sentences level makes huge amount of ambiguity, specially that the articles could be mentioning a history of some named entity (person, country, organization) but then they could end the article with a […]
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Laplace smoothing or additive smoothing is a statistical technique to increase the probability of less likely elements by increasing the counts of all the elements in the dataset by one. The application of smoothing is very important in natural language processing, as some words may have zero or close to zero probabilities such as the […]
In this article, we present a simplified list of language ambiguity in natural language processing as well as the effects of ambiguity in the processing: Word sense ambiguity: The same noun could have two different meaning, such as the word bank in the sentences “Bank of America” and “river bank”. Part of speech ambiguity: Some […]