Information about Homograph
A homograph is one of a group of words that share the same spelling but have different meanings. When spoken, the meanings are sometimes, but not necessarily, distinguished by different pronunciations. A homograph is a specific type of homonym.
Examples:
In (1) all three words are identical in spelling and pronunciation (ie they are also homophones), but differ in meaning and function. These are commonly described as different senses of the same word, but if a word is regarded as a unique idea separate from its orthography and pronunciation then they are two different words.
(2) is an example of two words spelt identically but pronounced differently. Here confusion is not possible in spoken language.
Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields.
In typography, "homograph" is sometimes used as a synomym for homoglyph.
In linguistics, a homonym
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Examples:
- (1)
- shift n. (a change)
shift n. (a period at work)
shift v. (slang for 'move it')
In (1) all three words are identical in spelling and pronunciation (ie they are also homophones), but differ in meaning and function. These are commonly described as different senses of the same word, but if a word is regarded as a unique idea separate from its orthography and pronunciation then they are two different words.
- (2)
- read /riːd/ (present)
read /red/ (past)
(2) is an example of two words spelt identically but pronounced differently. Here confusion is not possible in spoken language.
Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields.
In typography, "homograph" is sometimes used as a synomym for homoglyph.
See also
- Homography, a concept in geometry. A homography matrix is sometimes known as a homograph.
For the specialised use of homonym in scientific nomenclature, see Homonym (botany) and Homonym (zoology).
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homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or
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Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware.
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Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It studies the problems of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages.
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In typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more characters with shapes that are either identical, or cannot be differentiated by quick visual inspection. This designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties.
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Homography is a concept in the mathematical science of geometry. It is defined as a relation between two figures, such that any given point in one figure corresponds to one and only one point in the other, and vice versa.
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