Instruction: Discuss how ambiguity in language poses challenges for NLP systems.
Context: This question tests the candidate's understanding of one of the fundamental difficulties in automating the understanding of natural language.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Ambiguity is one of the central challenges in NLP because language is often underspecified. Words, phrases, and even whole sentences can have multiple valid interpretations depending on context,...