computers humanities vol 31 2 published published published published computers humanities volume 31 2 1997 recent issue computers humanities includes special section entitled debates humanities computing issue debate addresses fundamental question underlying work automatic word sense disambiguation viability definitively distinguishing senses polysemous words yorick wilks wellknown researcher area automatic sense disambiguation computational semantics presents view word senses supports viability current approaches automatic word sense disambiguation opposing position taken lexicographer adam kilgarriff argues definitive sense division difficult even humans virtually impossible describes empirical study supporting claim table contents special section debates humanities computing viability automatic word sense disambiguation senses texts yorick wilks nt believe word senses adam kilgarriff articles issue estonian morphological analyser impact corpus development heiki jaan kaalep mtscript multi lingual text editor malek boualem stephane harie computers humanities official journal association computers humanities editors chief nancy ide dept computer science vassar college usa daniel greenstein executive arts humanities data services king college uk subscriptions information consult journal www home page http kapis www wkap nl contact dieke van wijnen kluwer academic publishers spuiboulevard 50 p box 17 3300 aa dordrecht netherlands phone 31 78 639 22 64 fax 31 78 639 22 54 e mail dieke vanwijnen wkap nl members association computers humanities ach receive subscription chum less half price individual subscription information ach membership application consult http www ach org send email chuck _ bush byu edu