Projects
Unsupervised multilingual language learning Models and algorithms for translation, word alignment, and bilingual lexicon induction from parallel and non-parallel texts. Sponsored by DARPA LORELEI and a Google Faculty Research Award.
Neural networks for machine translation Models and algorithms for translation and language modeling using neural networks. Sponsored by an Amazon Academic Research Award and a Google Faculty Research Award.
Documenting endangered languages Technologies for large-scale data collection and automatic transcription and word alignment in endangered and unwritten languages. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Events
2018/05/10–11Midwest Speech and Language Days 2018
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Recent Publications
Kenton Murray and David Chiang.
Correcting length bias in neural machine translation.
In
Proc. WMT, 212–223. 2018.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, 2018.
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BibTeX
@article{aguinaga+:tpami2018,
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 = "2018"
}
David Chiang, Frank Drewes, Adam Lopez, and Giorgio Satta.
Weighted
DAG automata for semantic graphs.
Computational Linguistics, 44(1):119–186, 2018.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
}
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