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David YarowskyView profile

Professor

• Natural Language Processing
• Spoken Language Systems
• Machine Translation
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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.

Maik ThieleView profile

Professor

• Database Systems
• Data Engineering
• Big Data Analytics
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maik Thiele is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics , Dresden University of Applied Sciences. He leads the Professorship for Database Systems , focusing on advanced database technologies, big data platforms, and data engineering. Academic Leadership: Dean of Master's program in Applied Computer Science (since 2021), elected member of Faculty Council (since 2024) Research: Data analysis along the data value chain from acquisition to AI-driven processing, with emphasis on Active Learning , Transformer Models , and Mathematical Information Retrieval Applied Projects: Director of Dresden Database Forum , member of Digital Transformation Development Workshop (EDiT) His recent work analyzes Active Learning strategies for biomedical image classification and synthetic data, develops time series matching techniques , and explores ethical AI evaluation for e-commerce chatbots. He supervises student theses on topics ranging from PDF data extraction to Smart Grid monitoring and Speech-to-Text optimization . Professor Thiele serves on program committees for leading conferences including ADBIS , DAWAK , and DOLAP , and contributes to journals like Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and International Journal on Very Large Data Bases .