Willis, Alistair; Chantree, Francis and De Roeck, Anne
(2008).
| URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/37241h47454r48... |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s11168-008-9058-2 |
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Abstract
We present the concept of nocuous ambiguity, which occurs when text is interpreted differently by different readers. In contrast, text exhibits innocuous ambiguity if different readers interpret it in the same way, even though structural or semantic analyses suggest that multiple interpretations may be possible. We collect multiple human judgements of a set of English phrases obtained from requirements documents. We focus on coordination ambiguity and show that across a group of judges there may be wide variation in what is perceived to be the correct interpretation. We develop the concept of an ambiguity threshold, which expresses the amount of variation between judgements that can be tolerated. We then develop and evaluate a heuristically based method of automatically predicting which sentences may be misunderstood for a given ambiguity threshold.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. |
| ISSN: | 1572-8706 |
| Keywords: | nocuous ambiguity; ambiguity notification; ambiguity threshold Coordination ambiguity |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing Mathematics, Computing and Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 27239 |
| Depositing User: | Catherine McNulty |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2011 11:28 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2011 05:22 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/27239 |
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