Introduction / Khurshid Ahmad, Christopher Brewster, and Mark Stevenson Mark Maybury / Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey John A Barnden / Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity Nicoletta Calzolari / Towards a new generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web vision Robert Gaizauskas, Horacio Saggion, and Emma Barker / Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue Gregory Grefenstette / Three steps in Wilks work: From theory to resources to practice Patrick Hanks / Preference Syntagmatics Nancy Ide and David Woolner / Historical Ontologies Makoto Nagao / An Amorphous Object Must Be Cut By A Blunt Tool Sergei Nirenburg / Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn Nigel Shadbolt / Philosophical Engineering Harold Somers / Machine Translation and the World Wide Web Karen Spärck Jones / Semantic primitives: the tip of the iceberg John Tait and Michael Oakes / Molecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics