Portrait of Jackie Cheung

Jackie Cheung

Core Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Associate Scientific Director, Mila, Associate Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Consultant Researcher, Microsoft Research
Research Topics
Deep Learning
Medical Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Reasoning

Biography

I am an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and a consultant researcher at Microsoft Research.

My group investigates natural language processing, an area of AI research that builds computational models of human languages, such as English or French. The goal of our research is to develop computational methods for understanding text and speech in order to generate language that is fluent and context appropriate.

In our lab, we investigate statistical machine learning techniques for analyzing and making predictions about language. Some of my current projects focus on summarizing fiction, extracting events from text, and adapting language across genres.

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Publications

Detecting Large Concept Extensions for Conceptual Analysis
L. Chartrand
Mohamed Bouguessa
Nifty Assignments
Nick Parlante
Julie Zelenski
Dave Feinberg
Kunal Mishra
Josh Hug
Kevin Wayne
Michael Guerzhoy
François Pitt
I suspect that students learn more from our programming assignments than from our much sweated-over lectures, with their slide transitions, … (see more)clip art, and joke attempts. A great assignment is deliberate about where the student hours go, concentrating the student's attention on material that is interesting and useful. The best assignments solve a problem that is topical and entertaining, providing motivation for the whole stack of work. Unfortunately, creating great programming assignments is both time consuming and error prone. The Nifty Assignments special session is all about promoting and sharing the ideas and ready-to-use materials of successful assignments.
Computer-Assisted Conceptual Analysis of Textual Data as Applied to Philosophical Corpuses
Jean Guy Meunier
L. Chartrand
Mathieu Valette
Marie-noëlle Bayle