{"id":4292,"date":"2024-11-05T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/david-yarowsky\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:48:17","slug":"david-yarowsky","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/david-yarowsky\/","title":{"rendered":"David Yarowsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Yarowsky is a professor of computer science, the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/yarowsky.cs.jhu.edu\/\">Low-Resource Languages Lab<\/a>, and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clsp.jhu.edu\/\">Center for Language and Speech Processing<\/a> at the Johns Hopkins University. 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