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)