Meanings
adjectiveunderspecific (comparative more underspecific, superlative most underspecific)
comparative more underspecific · superlative most underspecific
- 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.
2016, Shiwali Mohan, Aaron Mininger, John Laird, “Towards an Indexical Model of Situated Language Comprehension for Cognitive Agents in Physical Worlds”, in arXiv
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