My research is in natural language processing, the subfield of computer science that aims to enable computers to understand and produce human language. I focus mainly on language translation, and am interested in syntactic parsing and other areas as well.
Teaching
Recent and selected publications
Patrick Soga and David Chiang.
Bridging graph position encodings for transformers with weighted graph-walking automata.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{soga+chiang:2023,
author = "Soga, Patrick and Chiang, David",
title = "Bridging Graph Position Encodings for Transformers with Weighted Graph-Walking Automata",
year = "2023",
journal = "Transactions on Machine Learning Research",
note = "To appear"
}
David Chiang, Peter Cholak, and Anand Pillay.
Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders.
2023.
arXiv:2301.10743.
PDF
BibTeX
@misc{chiang+cholak+pillay:2023,
author = "Chiang, David and Cholak, Peter and Pillay, Anand",
title = "Tighter Bounds on the Expressivity of Transformer Encoders",
note = "arXiv:2301.10743",
year = "2023"
}
Brian DuSell and David Chiang.
The surprising computational power of nondeterministic stack
RNNs.
In
Proc. ICLR. 2023.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dusell+chiang:2023,
author = "DuSell, Brian and Chiang, David",
title = "The Surprising Computational Power of Nondeterministic Stack {RNN}s",
booktitle = "Proc. ICLR",
note = "To appear",
year = "2023"
}
David Chiang, Colin McDonald, and Chung-chieh Shan.
Exact recursive probabilistic programming.
PACMPL, 2023.
doi:10.1145/3586050.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{chiang+mcdonald+shan:2023,
author = "Chiang, David and McDonald, Colin and Shan, Chung-chieh",
title = "Exact Recursive Probabilistic Programming",
journal = "PACMPL",
volume = "7",
number = "OOPSLA1",
article = "98",
xmonth = "April",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1145/3586050"
}
Chihiro Taguchi and David Chiang.
Introducing morphology in
Universal
Dependencies
Japanese.
In
Proc. Workshop on Universal Dependencies, 65–72. 2023.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{taguchi+chiang:2023,
author = "Taguchi, Chihiro and Chiang, David",
title = "Introducing Morphology in {U}niversal {D}ependencies {J}apanese",
year = "2023",
booktitle = "Proc. Workshop on Universal Dependencies",
pages = "65--72"
}
David Chiang, Alexander M. Rush, and Boaz Barak.
Named tensor notation.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{chiang+rush+barak:2023,
author = "Chiang, David and Rush, Alexander M. and Barak, Boaz",
title = "Named Tensor Notation",
year = "2023",
xmonth = "January",
journal = "Transactions on Machine Learning Research"
}
Darcey Riley and David Chiang.
A continuum of generation tasks for investigating length bias and degenerate repetition.
In
Proc. BlackboxNLP. 2022.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{riley+chiang:2022,
author = "Riley, Darcey and Chiang, David",
title = "A Continuum of Generation Tasks for Investigating Length Bias and Degenerate Repetition",
booktitle = "Proc. BlackboxNLP",
year = "2022"
}
Alexandra Butoi, Brian DuSell, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell, and David Chiang.
Algorithms for weighted pushdown automata.
In
Proc. EMNLP. 2022.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{butoi+:2022,
author = "Butoi, Alexandra and DuSell, Brian and Vieira, Tim and Cotterell, Ryan and Chiang, David",
title = "Algorithms for Weighted Pushdown Automata",
year = "2022",
booktitle = "Proc. EMNLP"
}
David Chiang and Peter Cholak.
Overcoming a theoretical limitation of self-attention.
In
Proc. ACL. 2022.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chiang+cholak:2022,
author = "Chiang, David and Cholak, Peter",
title = "Overcoming a Theoretical Limitation of Self-Attention",
booktitle = "Proc. ACL",
year = "2022"
}
Brian DuSell and David Chiang.
Learning hierarchical structures with differentiable nondeterministic stacks.
In
Proc. ICLR. 2022.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dusell+chiang:iclr2022,
author = "DuSell, Brian and Chiang, David",
title = "Learning Hierarchical Structures with Differentiable Nondeterministic Stacks",
booktitle = "Proc. ICLR",
year = "2022"
}
Samuel Grieggs, Bingyu Shen, Greta Rauch, Pei Li, Jiaqi Ma, David Chiang, Brian Price, and Walter Scheirer.
Measuring human perception to improve handwritten document transcription.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021.
doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3092688.
DOI
BibTeX
@article{grieggs+:tpami2021,
author = "Grieggs, Samuel and Shen, Bingyu and Rauch, Greta and Li, Pei and Ma, Jiaqi and Chiang, David and Price, Brian and Scheirer, Walter",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence",
title = "Measuring Human Perception to Improve Handwritten Document Transcription",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3092688"
}
David Chiang and Darcey Riley.
Factor graph grammars.
In
Proc. NeurIPS, 6648–6658. 2020.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chiang+riley:2020,
author = "Chiang, David and Riley, Darcey",
title = "Factor Graph Grammars",
year = "2020",
booktitle = "Proc. NeurIPS",
pages = "6648--6658"
}
Brian DuSell and David Chiang.
Learning context-free languages with nondeterministic stack
RNNs.
In
Proc. CoNLL, 507–519. 2020.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{dusell+chiang:2020,
author = "DuSell, Brian and Chiang, David",
title = "Learning Context-free Languages with Nondeterministic Stack {RNN}s",
booktitle = "Proc. CoNLL",
year = "2020",
pages = "507--519"
}
Justin DeBenedetto and David Chiang.
Representing unordered data using complex-weighted multiset automata.
In Hal Daumé III and Aarti Singh, editors,
Proc. ICML, volume 119 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2412–2420. 2020.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{debenedetto+chiang:icml2020,
author = "DeBenedetto, Justin and Chiang, David",
editor = "III, Hal Daumé and Singh, Aarti",
title = "Representing Unordered Data Using Complex-Weighted Multiset Automata",
booktitle = "Proc. ICML",
pages = "2412--2420",
year = "2020",
volume = "119",
series = "Proceedings of Machine Learning Research",
pdf = "http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/debenedetto20a/debenedetto20a.pdf"
}
Kenton Murray and David Chiang.
Correcting length bias in neural machine translation.
In
Proc. WMT, 212–223. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{murray+chiang:wmt2018,
author = "Murray, Kenton and Chiang, David",
title = "Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation",
booktitle = "Proc. WMT",
year = "2018",
pages = "212--223",
location = "Belgium, Brussels"
}
David Chiang, Frank Drewes, Daniel Gildea, Adam Lopez, and Giorgio Satta.
Weighted
DAG automata for semantic graphs.
Computational Linguistics, 44(1):119–186, 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{chiang+:cl2018,
author = "Chiang, David and Drewes, Frank and Gildea, Daniel and Lopez, Adam and Satta, Giorgio",
title = "Weighted {DAG} automata for semantic graphs",
journal = "Computational Linguistics",
year = "2018",
volume = "44",
number = "1",
pages = "119--186"
}
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