Fair enough. I'm thinking in particular of a paper I read that used pagerank for word sense disambiguation [1]. It's actually variant of pagerank, so the high l

Fair enough. I'm thinking in particular of a paper I read that used pagerank for word sense disambiguation [1]. It's actually variant of pagerank, so the high level description in terms of probabilities (which I read several of) didn't take me very far. In order to come to grips with the technique I ended up actually implementing it and trying it on some toy datasets. This definitely would have helped me in that case. [1] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E09/E09-1005.pdf http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E09/E09-1005.pdf It's interesting research, but it unfortunately turns out that even the best results in word sense disambiguation aren't good enough for a lot of applications. I wish I had 2 years to do nothing but play around in this field.