Thanks for your pointers. I had actually read (parts of) Resnik's diss and further work, but apparently it had slipped my mind, or I just forgot about it. Your

Thanks for your pointers. I had actually read (parts of) Resnik's diss and further work, but apparently it had slipped my mind, or I just forgot about it. Your work sounds really interesting, too. I hadn't heard of Firth's model yet; it sounds like it's in the spirit of distributional semantics. I hope I can find some time to give it a read!