disambiguation

[ dis-am-big-yoo-ey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act or process of distinguishing between similar things, meanings, names, etc., in order to make the meaning or interpretation more clear or certain:

   Word sense disambiguation helps determine which meaning a word has in any given context.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disambiguation¹

dis- ¹ + ambigu(ous) + -ation

Example Sentences

Microsoft’s blog post on Megatron-Turing says the algorithm is skilled at tasks like completion prediction, reading comprehension, commonsense reasoning, natural language inferences, and word sense disambiguation.

From Singularity Hub 

Importantly, that initial BERT search update was for disambiguation primarily, as well as text extraction and summarisation in featured snippets.

From Search Engine Land