... occur in a context win-dow. If many of the concepts in a window have astrong component for one of the topics, then thesum of the vectors, the context vector, will alsohave a strong component for ... process of acqui-sition of the topic signatures. Section 3 demon-strates the application of this resource on WSD,and presents the results of our experiments. Sec-tion 4 discusses factors ... Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second LanguageXinglong WangDepartment of InformaticsUniversity of SussexBrighton, BN1 9QH, UKxw20@sussex.ac.ukAbstractWe...