Re: elusive area?

littlebeam <cyrus.lan@xxxxxxxxx> had it:

I want to use an adjective to describe an area which is under-specified
because it is too abstract, and hardly understandable.

e.g. Semantics and pragmatics are two ___ areas of natural language
processing.

Any good suggestions?

esoteric
complex
abstruse

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