24. The apparatus set forth in claim 22 wherein: the means for analyzing the sequence employs a Bayesian discrimination technique involving the words in the sequence and the sense of the word-sense pair to determine a probability that the sense specified in the word/sense pair is a sense which is lexically appropriate to given position.
22. Apparatus for determining whether a sense for a word is lexically appropriate to a given position in a text, the apparatus comprising: means for obtaining 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 means for analyzing the sequence to determine whether a sense specified in a word/sense pair for the word is a sense which is lexically appropriate to the given position.