7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: identifying within the selected word subgraph a third node representing a third occurrence of the third word, the third node having a word sense characterization; and determining to copy to the first node the word sense characterization of the second node rather than the word sense characterization of the third node based upon a characteristic of the second node.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: identifying within the selected word subgraph a third node representing a third occurrence of the third word, the third node having a word sense characterization; and determining to copy to the first node the word sense characterization of the second node rather than the word sense characterization of the third node based upon a characteristic of the second node. 8. The method of claim 7 wherein the determining step determines to copy to the first node the word sense characterization of the second node rather than the word sense characterization of the third node based upon a determination that the first and second nodes are derived from the same corpus, while the first and third nodes are not derived from the same corpus.