David Yarowsky

David Yarowsky is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He leads the Low-Resource Languages Lab and is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

• Harvard University - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (1987)
• University of Pennsylvania - Master of Science in Engineering (1993) and PhD in Computer and Information Science (1996)

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, particularly focusing on word sense disambiguation, minimally supervised induction algorithms, multilingual NLP, and machine translation for low-resource languages. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in information retrieval, spoken language systems, and very large text databases.

Article Trends: His publications emphasize cross-lingual transfer learning, universal morphology, and low-resource language technologies. Key themes include morphological analysis, computational etymology, and adversarial speech recognition.

Scientific Awards:

• ACL Fellow (2013-present)

Professional Service: Served as Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Secretary-Treasurer of SIGDAT, and chair/co-chair of major conferences including EMNLP 2013, IJCNLP 2011, and ACL 2014.

Labs & Teams: Director of the Low-Resource Languages Lab at JHU and active member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.