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New measure quantifies ambiguity in legal and policy texts

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Researchers have developed a new method to quantify ambiguity in prescriptive texts like laws and policies. This approach measures ambiguity by assessing the level of disagreement among stakeholders regarding how different texts apply to various scenarios. Preliminary analysis indicates that this contextual measure correlates with human disagreement and is robust to superficial text features. The method was applied to existing datasets to explore the relationship between policy ambiguity and public support. AI

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New measure quantifies ambiguity in legal and policy texts

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Sally Dong, Luke Thorburn, Andrew Konya, Michiel Bakker ·

    A Contextual Measure of Ambiguity in Prescriptive Text

    arXiv:2610.35461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ambiguity in prescriptive text such as laws, contracts, rules, policies, or recommendations can be both desirable (e.g., if it enables a law to adapt to changing context, such as new technologies) and undesirable (e.g., if it leads …

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