Word sense
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A word sense is one of the meanings of a word.
For example a dictionary may have over 50 different meanings of the word play1, each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word usage in a sentence. For example:
“We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater.”
“The children went out to play in the park.”
In each sentence we associate a different meaning of the word "play" based on hints the rest of the sentence gives us.
Computers or people that read words one a time must use a process called word sense disambiguation to find the correct meaning of a word.
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