text_combined: human sense disambiguation last year sent request linguist list asking following research word sense disambiguation applied information retrieval recently reading paper said number researchers text processing observed people consistently determine sense word simply examining half dozen words word focus paper nt seem directly reference papers mentioning would really like track papers anyone reference someone contacted asking summary answers guess done ages ago still better late never got many replies many references needed four references probably worth look first two found spot others havn seen thanks everyone replied great help choueka luisgnan disambiguation short contexts computers humanities 19 3 pp147 157 1985 miller g annual review psychology communication vol 5 pp401 420 1954 contains summary work carried abraham kaplan graeme hirst semantic interpretation resolution ambiguity studies natural language processing cambridge university press 1987 uk kathleen dahlgren naive semantics natural language understanding boston kluwer 1988 mail mark sanderson department computing science university glasgow g12 8qq scotland uk e mail sanderso dcs glasgow ac uk tel 44 0 41 339 8855 x6292 new number fax 44 0 41 330 4913 gon na get tent tent tent tent tent experiment ment ment ment ment