Contents: Preface.Contributing Authors. N.Calzolari, Foreword; A.Lenci, S.Montemagni, V.Pirrelli, Acquiring and Representing Meaning: Theoretical and Computational Perspectives. Part I:C. Fellbaum, S.Fong, Obstacles and Regions; O.Y.Kwong, Word Sense Classification Based on Information Susceptibility; C. A. Rytting, D. Lonsdale, An operator-based account of semantic processing; G. Rigau, H. Rodriguez, Combining resources and methods for a semiautomatic construction of large scale ontologies. Part II: A. Faatz, Semantic Distances and Similarities in Ontology Enrichment; P. Gamallo, C. Gasperin, A. Agustini, J. G. Pereira Lopes, V. L. Strube de Lima, Using Syntax-Based Methods for Extracting Semantic Information; U. Kruschwitz, A Rapidly Acquired Domain Model Derived from Markup Structure; K. Lagus, A. Airola, Semantic Clustering Of Verbs; F. Moscoso del Prado Martin, R. H. Baayen, Unsupervised Extraction of High-dimensional Lexical Representations from Corpora using Simple Recurrent Networks; M. Sahlgren, Random Indexing of Words in Narrow Context Windows for Vector-Based Semantic Analysis; L. Steels, The Social Learning of Word Meaning.