1. A method performed in a computer system of determining whether a sense for a word is lexically appropriate to a given position in a text accessible to the computer system, the method comprising the steps of: using the computer system to obtain a sequence of words in the text which includes the given position and is predominantly substantially longer than the average length of the sentences of the text and to store the sequence; and using the computer system to make a word sense determination of whether a sense specified in a word/sense pair for the word which is stored in the computer system is a sense which is lexically appropriate to the given position by automatically analyzing the sequence.