Underspecific

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not specific enough.

    "We show that exploiting diverse information sources can alleviate ambiguities that arise from contextual use of underspecific referring expressions and unexpressed argument alternations of verbs."

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"We show that exploiting diverse information sources can alleviate ambiguities that arise from contextual use of underspecific referring expressions and unexpressed argument alternations of verbs."

Etymology

From under- + specific.

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