1. In a vector space representing the latent semantic content of a collection of documents, a method for discerning the presence of at least one sense of a subject term, the method comprising: determining at least one cluster of documents within the vector space, each cluster corresponding to a subset of documents within the vector space containing a subject term, and determining an implicit position within the vector space of at least one sense of the subject term, the implicit position corresponding to at least one determined cluster.