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David Yarowsky

Word Sense Disambiguation Minimally Supervised Induction Algorithms Natural Language Processing (NLP) Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science

About

David Yarowsky is a professor of computer science, the director of the Low-Resource Languages Lab, and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on word sense disambiguation, minimally supervised induction algorithms in natural language processing, and multilingual NLP. Yarowsky earned his bachelor’s (1987) in computer science at Harvard University and his master’s (1993) and PhD (1996) in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Performance Summary

166
Total Papers
19462
Total Citations
59
H-Index
1992-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget’s categories trained on large corpora

Year: 1992

Citations: 1206

Venue: COLING 1992 Volume 2: The 14th International Conference on Computational

Latest Recorded Paper

JHU IWSLT 2025 Low-resource System Description

Year: 2025

Citations: 1

Venue: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
6
2024
2
2022
4
2021
3
2020
11
2019
4
2018
10
2017
3
2016
6
2015
5
2014
3

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 123
Journal 5
Book 4

Top Coauthors

Yarowsky Church

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 6
Citations 94
Avg. Citations / Paper 15.7
H-Index 3

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 20
Citations 417
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.9
H-Index 10

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 28
Citations 1706
Avg. Citations / Paper 60.9
H-Index 16

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 23
Citations 2119
Avg. Citations / Paper 92.1
H-Index 16

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 826
Avg. Citations / Paper 31.8
H-Index 16

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 31
Citations 3136
Avg. Citations / Paper 101.2
H-Index 20

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 20
Citations 6088
Avg. Citations / Paper 304.4
H-Index 14

1990-1994

Period Stats
Papers 12
Citations 5076
Avg. Citations / Paper 423
H-Index 10

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu
4105165372

Detected Research Keywords

Word Sense Disambiguation Statistical Machine Translation Robust Projection Across Projection Across Aligned Across Aligned Corpora Natural Language Processing Inducing Multilingual Pos Multilingual Pos Taggers Pos Taggers Np Taggers Np Bracketers