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
Kenton Murray, Jeffery Kinnison, Toan Q. Nguyen, Walter Scheirer, and David Chiang.
Auto-sizing the
Transformer network: improving speed, efficiency, and performance for low-resource machine translation.
In
Proc. Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 231–240. 2019.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{murray-etal-2019-auto,
author = "Murray, Kenton and Kinnison, Jeffery and Nguyen, Toan Q. and Scheirer, Walter and Chiang, David",
title = "Auto-Sizing the {T}ransformer Network: Improving Speed, Efficiency, and Performance for Low-Resource Machine Translation",
booktitle = "Proc. Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation",
year = "2019",
pages = "231--240"
}
Arturo Argueta and David Chiang.
Accelerating sparse matrix operations in neural networks on graphics processing units.
In
Proc. ACL, 6215–6224. 2019.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{argueta+chiang:acl2019,
author = "Argueta, Arturo and Chiang, David",
title = "Accelerating Sparse Matrix Operations in Neural Networks on Graphics Processing Units",
booktitle = "Proc. ACL",
year = "2019",
xdoi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1626",
pages = "6215--6224"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alison Lui, Toan Q. Nguyen, and David Chiang.
Neural machine translation of text from non-native speakers.
In
Proc. North American Chapter of ACL HLT, volume 1, 3070–3080. 2019.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{lui+al:naacl2019,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Lui, Alison and Nguyen, Toan Q. and Chiang, David",
title = "Neural Machine Translation of Text from Non-Native Speakers",
booktitle = "Proc. North {A}merican Chapter of ACL HLT",
year = "2019",
xdoi = "10.18653/v1/N19-1311",
pages = "3070--3080",
volume = "1"
}
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"
}
Arturo Argueta and David Chiang.
Composing finite state transducers on
GPUs.
In
Proc. ACL, 2697–2705. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{argueta+chiang:acl2018,
author = "Argueta, Arturo and Chiang, David",
title = "Composing Finite State Transducers on {GPUs}",
booktitle = "Proc. ACL",
year = "2018",
pages = "2697--2705",
location = "Melbourne, Australia"
}
Justin DeBenedetto and David Chiang.
Algorithms and training for weighted multiset automata and regular expressions.
In
Proc. Implementation and Applications of Automata, 146–158. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{debenedetto+chiang:2018,
author = "DeBenedetto, Justin and Chiang, David",
title = "Algorithms and Training for Weighted Multiset Automata and Regular Expressions",
booktitle = "Proc. Implementation and Applications of Automata",
year = "2018",
pages = "146--158"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos and David Chiang.
Leveraging translations for speech transcription in low-resource settings.
In
Proc. INTERSPEECH. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos+chiang:interspeech2018,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Chiang, David",
title = "Leveraging translations for speech transcription in low-resource settings",
booktitle = "Proc. INTERSPEECH",
year = "2018"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos and David Chiang.
Tied multitask learning for neural speech translation.
In
Proc. NAACL HLT, volume 1, 82–91. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos+chiang:naacl2018,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Chiang, David",
title = "Tied Multitask Learning for Neural Speech Translation",
booktitle = "Proc. NAACL HLT",
year = "2018",
pages = "82--91",
location = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
volume = "1"
}
Toan Nguyen and David Chiang.
Improving lexical choice in neural machine translation.
In
Proc. NAACL HLT, volume 1, 334–343. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{nguyen+chiang:naacl2018,
author = "Nguyen, Toan and Chiang, David",
title = "Improving Lexical Choice in Neural Machine Translation",
booktitle = "Proc. NAACL HLT",
year = "2018",
pages = "334--343",
location = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
volume = "1"
}
Salvador Aguinaga, David Chiang, and Tim Weninger.
Learning hyperedge replacement grammars for graph generation.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 41(3):625–638, 2019.
doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2810877.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{aguinaga+:tpami2019,
author = "Aguinaga, Salvador and Chiang, David and Weninger, Tim",
title = "Learning Hyperedge Replacement Grammars for Graph Generation",
journal = "IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence",
year = "2019",
volume = "41",
number = "3",
pages = "625--638",
doi = "10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2810877"
}
David Chiang, Frank Drewes, 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 Lopez, Adam and Satta, Giorgio",
title = "Weighted {DAG} automata for semantic graphs",
journal = "Computational Linguistics",
year = "2018",
volume = "44",
number = "1",
pages = "119--186"
}
Toan Q. Nguyen and David Chiang.
Transfer learning across low-resource, related languages for neural machine translation.
In
Proc. IJCNLP, volume 2, 296–301. 2017.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{nguyen-chiang:2017:I17-2,
author = "Nguyen, Toan Q. and Chiang, David",
title = "Transfer Learning across Low-Resource, Related Languages for Neural Machine Translation",
booktitle = "Proc. IJCNLP",
year = "2017",
pages = "296--301",
volume = "2"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Sameer Bansal, David Chiang, Sharon Goldwater, and Adam Lopez.
Spoken term discovery for language documentation using translations.
In
Proc. Workshop on Speech-Centric NLP, 53–58. 2017.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos-EtAl:2017:Speech-Centric,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Bansal, Sameer and Chiang, David and Goldwater, Sharon and Lopez, Adam",
title = "Spoken Term Discovery for Language Documentation using Translations",
booktitle = "Proc. Workshop on Speech-Centric NLP",
year = "2017",
pages = "53--58"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos and David Chiang.
A case study on using speech-to-translation alignments for language documentation.
In
Proc. Workshop on Use of Computational Methods in Study of Endangered Languages, 170–178. 2017.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos-chiang:2017:W17-01,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Chiang, David",
title = "A case study on using speech-to-translation alignments for language documentation",
booktitle = "Proc. Workshop on Use of Computational Methods in Study of Endangered Languages",
year = "2017",
pages = "170--178"
}
Huadong Chen, Shujian Huang, David Chiang, and Jiajun Chen.
Improved neural machine translation with a syntax-aware encoder and decoder.
In
Proc. ACL, volume 1, 1936–1945. 2017.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen-EtAl:2017:Long6,
author = "Chen, Huadong and Huang, Shujian and Chiang, David and Chen, Jiajun",
title = "Improved Neural Machine Translation with a Syntax-Aware Encoder and Decoder",
booktitle = "Proc. ACL",
year = "2017",
pages = "1936--1945",
volume = "1"
}
Arturo Argueta and David Chiang.
Decoding with finite-state transducers on
GPUs.
In
Proc. EACL, volume 1, 1044–1052. 2017.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{argueta-chiang:2017:EACLlong,
author = "Argueta, Arturo and Chiang, David",
title = "Decoding with Finite-State Transducers on {GPUs}",
booktitle = "Proc. EACL",
year = "2017",
pages = "1044--1052",
volume = "1"
}
Ulf Hermjakob, Qiang Li, Daniel Marcu, Jonathan May, Sebastian J. Mielke, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Xing Shi, Kevin Knight, Tomer Levinboim, Kenton Murray, David Chiang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Ying Lin, and Heng Ji.
Incident-driven machine translation and name tagging for low-resource languages.
Machine Translation, 32(1–2):59–89, 2018.
doi:10.1007/s10590-017-9207-1.
DOI
BibTeX
@article{hermjakob+:mt2018,
author = "Hermjakob, Ulf and Li, Qiang and Marcu, Daniel and May, Jonathan and Mielke, Sebastian J. and Pourdamghani, Nima and Pust, Michael and Shi, Xing and Knight, Kevin and Levinboim, Tomer and Murray, Kenton and Chiang, David and Zhang, Boliang and Pan, Xiaoman and Lu, Di and Lin, Ying and Ji, Heng",
title = "Incident-Driven Machine Translation and Name Tagging for Low-resource Languages",
journal = "Machine Translation",
year = "2018",
volume = "32",
number = "1--2",
pages = "59--89",
doi = "10.1007/s10590-017-9207-1"
}
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Students
Current
Former
- Cindy Xinyi Wang (BS, 2017 → CMU)
- Tomer Levinboim (PhD, 2017 → Google)
- Theerawat Dome Songyot (on leave)
- Hui Zhang (on leave → Facebook Research)
- Ashish Vaswani (PhD, 2014 → Google Brain)
- Victoria Fossum (postdoc → Google)
