Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
A sentence or phrase with an ambiguous meaning. Crash blossoms present a significant problem in natural language understanding. For example, the headline Red Tape Holds Up Skyscraper is a crash blossom because an NLU model could interpret the headline literally or figuratively.
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A news aggregator builds a crash-blossom detector to flag headlines that are syntactically ambiguous before they are shown to readers.
A media analytics team labels crash-blossom headlines in its dataset to evaluate how well its parser handles structural ambiguity.
A search-quality team uses examples of crash-blossom headlines to test its query understanding model on intentionally ambiguous text.
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