When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible ...
The LancetOpinion

Deception in clinical large language models: an under-recognised safety risk

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into clinical workflows, supporting tasks such as diagnosis ...
note

Don't leave slight "misalignments" in language ambiguous

Language is perceived differently by different people. Yet, each word is assigned a meaning. And yet, there are also different words with the same meaning. When you belong to an organization ...
IEEE

Naïve Bayes Approach for Word Sense Disambiguation System With a Focus on Parts-of-Speech Ambiguity Resolution

Abstract: Natural languages are written and spoken languages, and NLP (Natural Language Processing) is the ability of a computer program to recognize both written and spoken languages. Word Sense ...
jagranjosh.com

Word of the Day: Ambiguity

Ambiguity Meaning & Examples: Imagine your friend tells you, "I saw a man with binoculars." Does that mean your friend used binoculars to see the man? Or does it mean the man was the one holding the ...
The Indian Express

Beyond Trending: What is strategic ambiguity?

Amid a fragile ceasefire in West Asia, tensions continue to smolder around the Strait of Hormuz – a critical chokepoint for global energy supplies. Slowdown in shipping, episodic attacks on commercial ...
Brown University

Do AI language models ‘understand’ the real world? On a basic level, they do, a new study finds

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that are commonplace, improbable, impossible or just plain nonsense. PROVIDENCE ...
Firstpost

Reading between the lines: Ex-foreign secretary explains how Iran values India’s ‘strategic ambiguity’

Massive plumes of smoke spread across various parts of Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026, enveloping it in darkness (Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters) As Iran has continued to engage cordially with ...
insurancebusinessmag

Wisconsin court rejects insurer's gig delivery exclusion as ambiguous

A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that a personal auto insurer must cover a DoorDash driver's accident, finding the policy's gig work exclusion ambiguous. The March 10 decision could give insurers ...
note

The Contradiction of Trading Company Professionals: How to Deal with the 'Ambiguity of Evaluation' That Is Neither Meritocracy nor Seniority in JTCs

The evaluation systems of general trading companies and large Japanese corporations (JTCs) have a unique structure that differs from both global meritocracy and classical seniority. For many trading ...
IEEE

To RAG or Not to RAG, That Is the Question: Effective Text-to-SQL Generation Under Ambiguity

Abstract: Natural language interfaces to databases promise to democratize data access, yet current Text-to-SQL systems fail to address a fundamental challenge: user questions are often ambiguous.
The Hindu

One sentence, multiple meanings: Analysing ambiguity

There are many benefits to using inspiring stories, interesting anecdotes, thought-provoking jokes, and discussion-worthy news reports in the teaching and learning of a foreign language. Such ...