20 Mar disambiguation

The process of resolving polysemy or other forms of ambiguity. Linguistic ambiguity arises from polysemy. Sensory ambiguity arises from physical and physiological obstacles to clear perception. Extreme cold may seem to burn a person’s skin. Shadows in the darkness may play tricks on a person’s eyes. We use context heavily to help us disambiguate input, whether perceptual or linguistic.
Keywords: context
ambiguity
polysemy
perception
cognition
communication
References: chaos
comprehension
fuzzy logic
natural language
words/morphology