David Yarowsky

Professor

Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: (410) 516-5372
Fax: (410) 516-6134
Email: yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/home.html
Office: New Engineering Building 324

I am a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing .

Education 

Ph.D.   1996  University of Pennsylvania Computer and Information Science
M.S.E.  1993  University of Pennsylvania Computer and Information Science
A.B.    1987  Harvard University         Computer Science (summa cum laude)

Research Interests

My research interests include natural language processing and spoken language systems, machine translation, information retrieval, very large text databases and machine learning.

My research focuses on word sense disambiguation, minimally supervised induction algorithms in NLP, and multilingual natural language processing.

Teaching

600.466 - Information Retrieval and Web Agents

600.315/415 - Database Systems

Publications

Executive Committee Member, The Association for Computational Linguistics

Secretary-Treasurer, SIGDAT (The ACL SIG for statistical/data-driven methods in NLP)

Editorial Board Member, Computational Linguistics

Publications Chair, ACL 2000

Program Chair, 3rd Workshop on Very Large Corpora (1995)

Program Co-Chair, HLT-2002, Conference on Human Language Technology (2002)

Information On Pursuing Graduate Studies in Language/Speech at JHU

Natural Language Processing Faculty at JHU

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