David Yarowsky

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2016–2020

David Yarowsky wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2016–2020, most of them on Machine translation; often with Winston Wu, Christo Kirov, John Sylak-Glassman.

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

Papers

Wiktionary Normalization of Translations and Morphological Information (2020)
The paper extends the Yawipa Wiktionary parser to read translations from etymology glosses and morphological form-of relations.
Creating a Translation Matrix of the Bible's Names Across 591 Languages (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.
Very-large Scale Parsing and Normalization of Wiktionary Morphological Paradigms (2016)
The paper describes a language-independent extractor that reads the paradigm tables of Wiktionary straight from its HTML.