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David Chiang

85 papers · 2000–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (73) 🐺 Lone Wolf (5) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (26) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (13) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) 🌱 Topic Pioneer ❓ The Questioner πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ’Ž Century Club (84) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (189) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (21) ⚑ Prolific Year (5) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer

Conferences

ACL (26) EMNLP (20) NAACL (12) COLING (8) EACL (4) ICLR (3) IJCNLP (3) CONLL (2) ICML (2) INTERSPEECH (2) NIPS (2) JMLR (1)

Top co-authors

Brian DuSell (8) Ashish Vaswani (7) Kevin Knight (7) Antonios Anastasopoulos (7) Kenton Murray (6) Toan Q. Nguyen (5) Aarohi Srivastava (5) Chihiro Taguchi (4) Jiajun Chen (3) Adam Pauls (3)

Keywords

neural machine translation (9) low-resource language (5) formal language (4) cross-lingual transfer (4) attention mechanism (4) transfer learning (4) data augmentation (4) speech recognition (4) low-resource translation (3) gpu computing (3) neural network (3) machine translation (3) automatic speech recognition (3) zero-shot transfer (2) text classification (2) transformer architecture (2) recurrent neural network (2) beam search (2) statistical machine translation (2) part-of-speech tagging (2)

Papers

Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties EACL 2026
We’re Calling an Intervention: Exploring Fundamental Hurdles in Adapting Language Models to Nonstandard Text NAACL 2025
Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark EMNLP 2025
PILA: A Historical-Linguistic Dataset of Proto-Italic and Latin COLING 2024
Nostra Domina at EvaLatin 2024: Improving Latin Polarity Detection through Data Augmentation COLING 2024
Stack Attention: Improving the Ability of Transformers to Model Hierarchical Patterns ICLR 2024
Masked Hard-Attention Transformers Recognize Exactly the Star-Free Languages NIPS 2024
DIALECTBENCH: An NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related Languages ACL 2024
Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accuracy: Orthographic Complexity Hurts, Phonological Complexity Doesn’t ACL 2024
Killkan: The Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Kichwa with Morphosyntactic Information COLING 2024
Fine-Tuning BERT with Character-Level Noise for Zero-Shot Transfer to Dialects and Closely-Related Languages EACL 2023
Tighter Bounds on the Expressivity of Transformer Encoders ICML 2023
Efficient Algorithms for Recognizing Weighted Tree-Adjoining Languages EMNLP 2023
Introducing Rhetorical Parallelism Detection: A New Task with Datasets, Metrics, and Baselines EMNLP 2023
Convergence and Diversity in the Control Hierarchy ACL 2023
The Surprising Computational Power of Nondeterministic Stack RNNs ICLR 2023
Universal Automatic Phonetic Transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet INTERSPEECH 2023
BERTwich: Extending BERT’s Capabilities to Model Dialectal and Noisy Text EMNLP 2023
Overcoming a Theoretical Limitation of Self-Attention ACL 2022
Learning Hierarchical Structures with Differentiable Nondeterministic Stacks ICLR 2022
A Continuum of Generation Tasks for Investigating Length Bias and Degenerate Repetition EMNLP 2022
Algorithms for Weighted Pushdown Automata EMNLP 2022
Syntax-Based Attention Masking for Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2021
Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution IJCNLP 2021
Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution ACL 2021
Learning Context-free Languages with Nondeterministic Stack RNNs EMNLP 2020
Learning Context-free Languages with Nondeterministic Stack RNNs CONLL 2020
Factor Graph Grammars NIPS 2020
[RETRACTED] Look It Up: Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionaries Improve Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
Representing Unordered Data Using Complex-Weighted Multiset Automata ICML 2020
Accelerating Sparse Matrix Operations in Neural Networks on Graphics Processing Units ACL 2019
Auto-Sizing the Transformer Network: Improving Speed, Efficiency, and Performance for Low-Resource Machine Translation EMNLP 2019
Efficiency through Auto-Sizing: Notre Dame NLP’s Submission to the WNGT 2019 Efficiency Task EMNLP 2019
Neural Machine Translation of Text from Non-Native Speakers NAACL 2019
Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel Griko-Italian Resource COLING 2018
Composing Finite State Transducers on GPUs ACL 2018
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2018
Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
Leveraging Translations for Speech Transcription in Low-resource Settings INTERSPEECH 2018
Tied Multitask Learning for Neural Speech Translation NAACL 2018
Improving Lexical Choice in Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2018
Combining Character and Word Information in Neural Machine Translation Using a Multi-Level Attention NAACL 2018
Top-Rank Enhanced Listwise Optimization for Statistical Machine Translation CONLL 2017
Improved Neural Machine Translation with a Syntax-Aware Encoder and Decoder ACL 2017
Decoding with Finite-State Transducers on GPUs EACL 2017
Transfer Learning across Low-Resource, Related Languages for Neural Machine Translation IJCNLP 2017
An Unsupervised Probability Model for Speech-to-Translation Alignment of Low-Resource Languages EMNLP 2016
An Attentional Model for Speech Translation Without Transcription NAACL 2016
Model Invertibility Regularization: Sequence Alignment With or Without Parallel Data NAACL 2015
Auto-Sizing Neural Networks: With Applications to n-gram Language Models EMNLP 2015
Supervised Phrase Table Triangulation with Neural Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages EMNLP 2015
Multi-Task Word Alignment Triangulation for Low-Resource Languages NAACL 2015
Improving Word Alignment using Word Similarity EMNLP 2014
Kneser-Ney Smoothing on Expected Counts ACL 2014
Decoding with Large-Scale Neural Language Models Improves Translation EMNLP 2013
Parsing Graphs with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars ACL 2013
Machine Translation for Language Preservation COLING 2012
An Exploration of Forest-to-String Translation: Does Translation Help or Hurt Parsing? ACL 2012
Smaller Alignment Models for Better Translations: Unsupervised Word Alignment with the l0-norm ACL 2012
Hope and Fear for Discriminative Training of Statistical Translation Models JMLR 2012
Language-Independent Parsing with Empty Elements ACL 2011
Rule Markov Models for Fast Tree-to-String Translation ACL 2011
Two Easy Improvements to Lexical Weighting ACL 2011
Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation ACL 2011
Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers NAACL 2010
Efficient Optimization of an MDL-Inspired Objective Function for Unsupervised Part-Of-Speech Tagging ACL 2010
Learning to Translate with Source and Target Syntax ACL 2010
Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars NAACL 2010
Fast, Greedy Model Minimization for Unsupervised Tagging COLING 2010
Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests ACL 2009
Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests IJCNLP 2009
11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2009
Extracting Synchronous Grammar Rules From Word-Level Alignments in Linear Time COLING 2008
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms EMNLP 2008
Online Large-Margin Training of Syntactic and Structural Translation Features EMNLP 2008
Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2007
Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models ACL 2007
Parsing Arabic Dialects EACL 2006
A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2005
The Hiero Machine Translation System: Extensions, Evaluation, and Analysis EMNLP 2005
Recovering Latent Information in Treebanks COLING 2002
Constraints on Strong Generative Power ACL 2001
Statistical Parsing with an Automatically-Extracted Tree Adjoining Grammar ACL 2000
Multi-Component TAG and Notions of Formal Power ACL 2000
Two Statistical Parsing Models Applied to the Chinese Treebank ACL 2000