Natural Language has an extremely rich form and structure. It is very ambiguous. There can be different levels of ambiguity
Lexical ambiguity: it is at very primitive level such as word-level. For example, treating the word “board” as noun or verb?
Syntax level ambiguity: A sentence be parsed in different ways. For example, “He lifted the beetle with the red cap?” - did he use cap to lift the beetle or he lifted a beetle that had red cap?
Referential ambiguity: referring to something using pronouns. For example, Rima went to Gauri. She said “I am tired”. - Exactly who is tired?
Difficulties
Natural Language has an extremely rich form and structure. It is very ambiguous. There can be different levels of ambiguity