Mind Your Words! You Might Convey What You Wouldn’t Like To

Natural language ambiguity is a well-known challenge for the NLP community in deepening the performances of the computer programs when dealing with human languages. Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. However, in many cases ambiguity is purposely used for various reasons. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing. We describe a system which is able to pinpoint such potential misinterpretations and advise the writer to make other lexical choices for his/her wording.