17. The computer readable medium of claim 14 , further comprising displaying for the user, a part-of-speech in which said at least one search query term is presumed to be used.
14. A computer readable hardware medium with executable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a computer processor, cause said computer to execute a method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query, the method comprising: receiving a search query from a user, said search query having at least one search query term; electronically and automatically determining a single, assumed sense of said at least one search query term selected from a group of retrieved senses for said search query term; displaying alternative senses in which said at least one search query term is used that are different from and exclusive of said single assumed word sense, and receiving the user's selection of at least one of the alternative senses; electronically identifying a plurality of available alternative terms from a cluster of terms belonging to a same word sense for the at least one search query term based on the user's selection of the at least one alternative sense, wherein the plurality of available alternative terms include synonyms within the selected alternative sense; and electronically executing a search for electronic documents that satisfy at least one of said search query term and the plurality of alternative terms.