Common Crawl - Team - Laurie Burchell The Data OverviewCDXJ IndexURL IndexWeb GraphsLatest CrawlCrawl StatsGraph StatsErrata ResourcesGet StartedAI AgentBlogExamplesCCBotInfra StatusOpt-Out RegistryFAQ CommunityResearch PapersMailing List ArchiveHugging FaceDiscordCollaborators AboutAboutTeamJobsPrivacy PolicyTerms of Use SearchAI Agent Contact Us Our Team > Laurie Burchell Laurie BurchellPrincipal Research Engineer Laurie is a technologist, linguist and researcher based in Edinburgh, UK. They are especially interested in using data-driven approaches to make language technologies as multilingual as possible. Before joining Common Crawl, Laurie's research focused on fast, high-coverage language identification and its part in creating reliable multilingual corpora. They believe strongly in open research and are a key contributor to several open-source projects such as the Open Language Data Initiative and HPLT. Laurie holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing, an MSc in Economics and an MA (Cantab) in Middle Eastern Studies. The DataOverviewCDXJ IndexURL IndexWeb GraphsLatest CrawlCrawl StatsGraph StatsErrata ResourcesGet StartedAI AgentBlogExamplesCCBotInfra StatusOpt-Out RegistryFAQ CommunityResearch PapersMailing List ArchiveHugging FaceDiscordCollaborators AboutAboutTeamJobsPrivacy PolicyTerms of Use © 2026 Common Crawl