Editing Syntactic ambiguity (section)

==Syntactic and semantic ambiguity==
{{Further|Polysemy}}
In syntactic ambiguity, the same sequence of words is interpreted as having different syntactic structures.  In contrast, in [[semantic ambiguity]] the structure remains the same, but the individual words are interpreted differently.<ref>Layman E. Allen "Some Uses of Symbolic Logic in Law Practice" 1962J M.U.L.L. 119, at 120;</ref><ref>L.E. Allen & M.E. Caldwell "[http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5793&context=fss_papers Modern Logic and Judicial Decision Making: A Sketch of One View]" in H.W. Baade (ed.) "Jurimetrics" Basic Books Inc., New York, USA, 1963, 213, at 228</ref> [[Controlled natural language]]s are often designed to be unambiguous so that they can be parsed into a [[logical form]].<ref name="KuhnFuchs2012">{{cite book|author1=Tobias Kuhn|author2=Norbert E Fuchs|title=Controlled Natural Language: Third International Workshop, CNL 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, August 29-31, 2012, Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPC5BQAAQBAJ&q=ambiguous+OR+ambiguity|date=9 August 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-32612-7}}</ref>