David Yarowsky

Professor

Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: (410) 516-5372
Email: yarowsky@jhu.edu
Office: Hackerman 324G

I am a member of JHU's 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

Research Interests

Selected Professional Service:

Treasurer, The Association for Computational Linguistics

Secretary-Treasurer, SIGDAT, The ACL SIG for statistical/data-driven methods in NLP (and instiutional organizer of EMNLP) (1993-2012)

Executive Committee Member, The Association for Computational Linguistics (2000-2003)

Editorial Board Member, Computational Linguistics (1996-1999)

General Chair, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013).

Program co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011)

Local Chair, 52nd Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014).

Program co-Chair, HLT-2002, Conference on Human Language Technology

Publications Chair, ACL 2000, EMNLP 2001, ACL 2003

Program co-Chair, ACL Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media (2014).

Program co-Chair, 3rd Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC3) (1995)

ACL Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics (2013-)


Publications


Teaching

600.466 - Information Retrieval and Web Agents

601.315/415/615 - Databases