| 5 January 2009 | Introduction: Chapter 7, Word Sense Disambiguation, of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (Manning, Schuetze) | |
| 7 January 2009 | Introduction: Baselines, taggers, corpora and other resources, One sense per discourse (Yarowsky) | |
| 12 January 2009 | Usupervised systems: Finding predominant word senses in untagged text (McCarthy, Koeling, Weeds, Carroll) | |
| 14 January 2009 | Data: Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation (Mihalcea) | |
| 21 January 2009 | Phrase sense disambiguation: MFS assignment summary, How phrase sense disambiguation outperforms word sense disambiguation for statistical machine translation (Carpuat, Wu) | |
| 26 January 2009 | Graphs: Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation Using Measures of Word Semantic Similarity (Sinha, Mihalcea) | |
| 2 February 2009 | Pseudo-task: Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation (Dagan, Lee, Pereira) | |
| 2 February 2009 | Data: Bootstrapping Large Sense Tagged Corpora (Mihalcea) | |
| 4 February 2009 | Project discussion. | |
| 9 February 2009 | Collocations: One Sense Per Collocation (Gale, Church, Yarowsky) | |
| 11 February 2009 | Ranking: Coreference Resolution Using Competition Learning Approach (Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su and Chew Lim Tan), A ranking approach to pronoun resolution (Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge). | |
| 16 February 2009 | Improving taggers / lemmatizers for WSD: Using Multiple-Taggers To Improve English Part-of-Speech Tagging by Error Learning (Jun Wu) | |
| 18 February 2009 | The interaction of knowledge sources in word sense disambiguation (Stevenson, Wilks) | |
| 23 February 2009 | Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback (Stevenson, Guo, Gaizauskas) | |
| 2 March 2009 | Large-Scale Many-Class Learning (O. Madani and M. Connor) | |
| 10 March 2009 | I don't believe in word senses (A. Kilgarriff) |