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
2017/12/07Talk: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick (Carnegie Mellon University)
2017/11/10Talk: Kyunghyun Cho (New York University)
2017/11/09Talk: Karl Stratos (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Past events →
Recent Publications
Xinyi Wang, Salvador Aguinaga, Tim Weninger, and David Chiang.
Growing better graphs with latent-variable probabilistic graph grammars.
In
Proc. Workshop on Mining and Learning with Grammars. 2018.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang+al:mlg2018,
author = "Wang, Xinyi and Aguinaga, Salvador and Weninger, Tim and Chiang, David",
title = "Growing Better Graphs With Latent-Variable Probabilistic Graph Grammars",
booktitle = "Proc. Workshop on Mining and Learning with Grammars",
note = "To appear",
year = "2018"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marika Lekakou, Josep Quer, Eleni Zimianiti, Justin DeBenedetto, and David Chiang.
Part-of-speech tagging on an endangered language: a parallel
Griko-Italian resource.
In
Proc. COLING. 2018.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{anastasopoulos+al:coling2018,
author = "Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Lekakou, Marika and Quer, Josep and Zimianiti, Eleni and DeBenedetto, Justin and Chiang, David",
title = "Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel {Griko-Italian} Resource",
booktitle = "Proc. COLING",
year = "2018",
note = "To appear"
}
Arturo Argueta and David Chiang.
Composing finite state transducers on
GPUs.
In
Proc. ACL. 2018.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{argueta+chiang:acl2018,
author = "Argueta, Arturo and Chiang, David",
title = "Composing Finite State Transducers on {GPUs}",
booktitle = "Proc. ACL",
year = "2018",
note = "To appear"
}
Justin DeBenedetto and David Chiang.
Algorithms and training for weighted multiset automata and regular expressions.
In
Proc. Implementation and Applications of Automata. 2018.
To appear.
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",
note = "To appear"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos and David Chiang.
Leveraging translations for speech transcription in low-resource settings.
In
Proc. INTERSPEECH. 2018.
To appear.
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",
note = "To appear",
year = "2018"
}
Corey Pennycuff, Satyaki Sikdar, Catalina Vajiac, David Chiang, and Tim Weninger.
Synchronous hyperedge replacement graph grammars.
In
Proc. Graph Transformations. 2018.
To appear.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{pennycuff+al:2018,
author = "Pennycuff, Corey and Sikdar, Satyaki and Vajiac, Catalina and Chiang, David and Weninger, Tim",
title = "Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Graph Grammars",
booktitle = "Proc. Graph Transformations",
year = "2018",
note = "To appear"
}
Antonios Anastasopoulos and David Chiang.
Tied multitask learning for neural speech translation.
In
Proc. NAACL HLT, 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"
}
Toan Nguyen and David Chiang.
Improving lexical choice in neural machine translation.
In
Proc. NAACL HLT, 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"
}
Huadong Chen, Shujian Huang, David Chiang, Xinyu Dai, and Jiajun Chen.
Combining character and word information in neural machine translation using a multi-level attention.
In
Proc. NAACL HLT, 1284–1293. 2018.
PDF
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen+:naacl2018,
author = "Chen, Huadong and Huang, Shujian and Chiang, David and Dai, Xinyu and Chen, Jiajun",
title = "Combining Character and Word Information in Neural Machine Translation Using a Multi-Level Attention",
booktitle = "Proc. NAACL HLT",
year = "2018",
pages = "1284--1293",
location = "New Orleans, Louisiana"
}
Tim Weninger Salvador Aguinaga, David Chiang.
Learning hyperedge replacement grammars for graph generation.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018.
To appear.
PDF
BibTeX
@article{aguinaga+:tpami2018,
author = "Salvador Aguinaga, David Chiang, Tim Weninger",
title = "Learning Hyperedge Replacement Grammars for Graph Generation",
journal = "IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence",
note = "To appear",
year = "2018"
}
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"
}
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