David Chiang 蔣偉

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Natural Language Processing Group

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

Spring 2021: CSE 40657/60657, Natural Language Processing
Fall 2020: CSE 30151, Theory of Computing
Spring 2020: CSE 30151, Theory of Computing
Fall 2019: CSE 40657/60657, Natural Language Processing
Spring 2019: CSE 40431, Programming Languages

Recent and selected publications

David Chiang and Colin McDonald. Syntax-based attention masking for neural machine translation. In Proc. NAACL Student Research Workshop. 2021. PDF BibTeX

@inproceedings{mcdonald+chiang:2021,
    author = "Chiang, David and McDonald, Colin",
    title = "Syntax-Based Attention Masking for Neural Machine Translation",
    year = "2021",
    booktitle = "Proc. NAACL Student Research Workshop"
}

David Chiang, Alexander M. Rush, and Boaz Barak. Named tensor notation. arXiv:2102.13196. PDF BibTeX

@misc{chiang+:2020,
    author = "Chiang, David and Rush, Alexander M. and Barak, Boaz",
    title = "Named Tensor Notation",
    note = "arXiv:2102.13196"
}

Xing Jie Zhong and David Chiang. Look it up: bilingual and monolingual dictionaries improve neural machine translation. In Proc. WMT. 2020. PDF BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhong+chiang:2020,
    author = "Zhong, Xing Jie and Chiang, David",
    title = "Look It Up: Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionaries Improve Neural Machine Translation",
    booktitle = "Proc. WMT",
    year = "2020"
}

David Chiang and Chung-chieh Shan. Translating recursive probabilistic programs to factor graph grammars. 2020. Presented at PROBPROG 2020. PDF BibTeX

@misc{chiang+shan:2020,
    author = "Chiang, David and Shan, Chung-chieh",
    title = "Translating Recursive Probabilistic Programs to Factor Graph Grammars",
    note = "Presented at PROBPROG 2020",
    year = "2020"
}

David Chiang and Darcey Riley. Factor graph grammars. In Proc. NeurIPS. 2020. PDF BibTeX

@inproceedings{chiang+riley:2020,
    author = "Chiang, David and Riley, Darcey",
    title = "Factor Graph Grammars",
    year = "2020",
    booktitle = "Proc. NeurIPS"
}

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, 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. NAACL: 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. NAACL: 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. Conference on 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. Conference on 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, 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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Students

Current

Former

Kenton Murray (PhD 2020 → postdoc JHU)
Antonios Anastasopoulos (PhD 2019 → postdoc CMU → asst. prof GMU)
Arturo Argueta (PhD 2019 → Apple)
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)