Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey -- Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity -- Towards a New Generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web Vision -- Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue -- Three Steps in Wilks Work: From Theory to Resources to Practice -- Preference Syntagmatics -- Historical Ontologies -- An Amorphous Object Must be Cut by a Blunt Tool -- Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn -- Philosophical Engineering -- Machine Translation and the World Wide Web -- Semantic Primitives: The Tip of the Iceberg -- Molecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics.

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. His work has spanned over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to recent developments in language processing such as the Semantic Web. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I, Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors.