Vocabulary Activity- unidad 6 -3 abril

Ambiguity is an intrinsic characteristic of human conversations and one that is particularly challenging in natural language understanding (NLU) scenarios; we are essentially referring to sentences that have __________ interpretations.

Lexical Ambiguity represents words that can have __________ assertions. For instance, in English, the word "back" can be a noun (backstage), an adjective (back door), or an adverb (back away).

Syntactic Ambiguity represents sentences that can be parsed in __________ ways. Take the following sentence: "I heard his cell phone ring in my office."

Semantic Ambiguity is typically related to the interpretation of a sentence, dealing with the __________ of the sentence.

Metonymy deals with phrases in which the literal meaning is different from the __________ assertion. For instance, when we say "Samsung is screaming for new management," we don't really mean that the company is literally screaming.