Definitions
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- noun The removal of
ambiguity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity
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Idea of disambiguation is being adopted by all engines.
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+ Promise of personalization - "how much traction can we get in disambiguation through personalization?"
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Striving for name disambiguation rather than name authority control may become an attractive option for catalogues, I&A databases, and digital library collections.
Name Authority in I&A Databases David Bigwood 2006
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Striving for name disambiguation rather than name authority control may become an attractive option for catalogues, I&A databases, and digital library collections.
Archive 2006-03-12 David Bigwood 2006
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He will discuss specific digital library projects at Johns Hopkins, including a robotic retrieval and scanning system and name disambiguation tools for automated metadata generation.
Archive 2003-11-30 David Bigwood 2003
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[63], the increased coverage of full-text has additional benefits for species name disambiguation, since more information is available to the disambiguation algorithms when processing full-text articles.
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Google even already does the kind of disambiguation that cuil has modelled itself on.
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You would NEVER worry about the need for "disambiguation" for the massive misinformation that has been spread about Obama.
"Troopergate" requires a "disambiguation" page in Wikipedia. Ann Althouse 2008
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Now you can harness the power of "disambiguation" to get rid of results you don't want.
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Find out how something as convoluted-sounding as "disambiguation" is actually simple and necessary.
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