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# David Yarowsky

3 paper cards in the Research library · 2016–2020

David Yarowsky wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2016–2020, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Winston Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/winston-wu/), [Christo Kirov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christo-kirov/), [John Sylak-Glassman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sylak-glassman/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015876016) · [**h-index 53**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015876016) · [12502 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015876016) · [199 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015876016) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

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Topics: [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Wiktionary Normalization of Translations and Morphological Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lex-2020-wu-wiktionary-normalization/)** *(2020)* The paper extends the Yawipa Wiktionary parser to read translations from etymology glosses and morphological form-of relations.
2. **[Creating a Translation Matrix of the Bible's Names Across 591 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2018-creating-translation-matrix-bible-s/)** *(2018)* The paper builds a matrix of 1,129 English person and place names from the Bible, each with its translation or transliteration in up to 591 languages, taken from a parallel-Bible corpus.
3. **[Very-large Scale Parsing and Normalization of Wiktionary Morphological Paradigms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lex-2016-kirov-wiktionary-paradigms/)** *(2016)* The paper describes a language-independent extractor that reads the paradigm tables of Wiktionary straight from its HTML.

## Co-authors (5)

- [Winston Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/winston-wu/) ×2
- [Christo Kirov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christo-kirov/)
- [John Sylak-Glassman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sylak-glassman/)
- Nidhi Vyas
- Roger Que

## More papers in the library (7)

Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each.

- [The Johns Hopkins University Bible Corpus: 1600+ Tongues for Typological Exploration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccarthy-2020-johns-hopkins-university-bible-corpus/) — Arya D. McCarthy, Rachel Wicks, Dylan Lewis, et al. · 2020
- [Marrying Universal Dependencies and Universal Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccarthy-2018-marrying-universal-dependencies-universal-morphology/) — Arya D. McCarthy, Miikka Silfverberg, Ryan Cotterell, et al. · 2018
- [Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing Based on Distributed Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2015-cross-lingual-dependency-parsing-based/) — Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, David Yarowsky, et al. · 2015
- [Inducing Multilingual Text Analysis Tools via Robust Projection across Aligned Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yarowsky-2001-inducing-multilingual-text-analysis-tools/) — David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai, Richard Wicentowski · 2001
- [Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yarowsky-1995-unsupervised-word-sense-disambiguation-rivaling/) — David Yarowsky · 1995
- [DECISION LISTS FOR LEXICAL AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION: Application to Accent Restoration in Spanish and French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yarowsky-1994-decision-lists-lexical-ambiguity-resolution/) — David Yarowsky · 1994
- [Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Models of Roget's Categories Trained on Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yarowsky-1992-word-sense-disambiguation-statistical-models/) — David Yarowsky · 1992
