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  • From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <threetreepoint AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: disambiguate question
  • Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:48:56 -0700

On 6/2/05 8:32 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

>> */Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>/* wrote:
>>
>> and used the following wonderful word:
>>
>> "...... disambiguate....."
>>
>> meaning, possibly," remove ambiguity from?" I wonder when was it
>> coined, and when is it used?
>
>
> Sorry, this is perhaps a term from the computer era or perhaps from
> linguistics ...

Both. I think the term was used in computational linguistics in the '70s and
possibly earlier.

Clay Bartholomew







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