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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ... Look up homonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Example:
shift n. (a change) shift n. (a period at work)
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.
Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. ...
In typography, "homograph" is sometimes used as a synomym for homoglyph. In typography, a homoglyph is one of a pair of characters with shapes that are visually identical or nearly identical. ...
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