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Jackie Cheung

Core Academic Member
Associate Scientific Director, Mila, Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science at McGill and Consultant Researcher at Microsoft Research.

My group conducts research in natural language processing (NLP), an area of artificial intelligence in which we build 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 appropriate to the context.

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

Publications

2021-11

The Topic Confusion Task: A Novel Evaluation Scenario for Authorship Attribution
EMNLP 2021
(2021-11-01)
aclanthology.org
Post-Editing Extractive Summaries by Definiteness Prediction.
Jad Kabbara and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
EMNLP 2021
(2021-11-01)
aclanthology.org
Textual Time Travel: A Temporally Informed Approach to Theory of Mind.
Akshatha Arodi and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
EMNLP 2021
(2021-11-01)
aclanthology.org

2021-08

Inspecting the Factuality of Hallucinated Entities in Abstractive Summarization.
Meng Cao, Yue Dong and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09784
(2021-08-30)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF
ADEPT: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task
Ali Emami, Ian Porada, Alexandra Olteanu, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
ACL 2021
(2021-08-01)
2021.aclweb.org
On-the-Fly Attention Modulation for Neural Generation
Yue Dong, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ximing Lu, Jena D. Hwang, Antoine Bosselut, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Yejin Choi
ACL 2021
(2021-08-01)
2021.aclweb.org
Optimizing Deeper Transformers on Small Datasets
Peng Xu, Dhruv Kumar, Wei Yang, Wenjie Zi, Keyi Tang, Chenyang Huang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Simon J.D. Prince and Yanshuai Cao

2021-07

TIE: A Framework for Embedding-based Incremental Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Jiapeng Wu, Yishi Xu, Yingxue Zhang, Chen Ma, Mark Coates and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2021-04

Modeling Event Plausibility with Consistent Conceptual Abstraction.
Ian Porada, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Characterizing Idioms: Conventionality and Contingency.
Michaela Socolof, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Michael Wagner and Timothy J. O'Donnell
arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08664
(2021-04-17)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF
The Topic Confusion Task: A Novel Scenario for Authorship Attribution.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08530
(2021-04-17)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF
Discourse-Aware Unsupervised Summarization for Long Scientific Documents.
Yue Dong, Andrei Mircea Romascanu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
EACL 2021
(2021-04-01)
aclanthology.org

2021-02

Deep Discourse Analysis for Generating Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutor Systems.
Matt Grenander, Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Vlad Serban, François St-Hilaire and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2021-01

On-the-Fly Attention Modularization for Neural Generation
Yue Dong, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ximing Lu, Jena D. Hwang, Antoine Bosselut, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Yejin Choi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00371
(2021-01-02)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF

2020-12

Optimizing Deeper Transformers on Small Datasets: An Application on Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing.
Peng Xu, Wei Yang, Wenjie Zi, Keyi Tang, Chengyang Huang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Yanshuai Cao
(venue unknown)
(2020-12-30)
dblp.uni-trier.de
Optimizing Deeper Transformers on Small Datasets
Peng Xu, Dhruv Kumar, Wei Yang, Wenjie Zi, Keyi Tang, Chenyang Huang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Simon J.D. Prince and Yanshuai Cao
arXiv: Computation and Language
(2020-12-30)
arxiv.orgPDF
On the Systematicity of Probing Contextualized Word Representations: The Case of Hypernymy in BERT
Abhilasha Ravichander, Eduard H. Hovy, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
JCLCS 2020
(2020-12-01)
aclanthology.org
An Analysis of Dataset Overlap on Winograd-Style Tasks
Ali Emami, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
COLING 2020
(2020-12-01)
aclanthology.orgPDF

2020-11

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLABLE MACHINE TEXT GENERATION ARCHITECTURE
Xu Peng, Cao Yanshuai and Cheung Jackie C K
(venue unknown)
(2020-11-22)
lens.org
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE WITH VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER POOLING
Long Teng, Cao Yanshuai and Cheung Jackie C K
(venue unknown)
(2020-11-21)
lens.org
An Analysis of Dataset Overlap on Winograd-Style Tasks.
Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04767
(2020-11-09)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
Learning Efficient Task-Specific Meta-Embeddings with Word Prisms
Jingyi He, K. C. Tsiolis, Kian Kenyon-Dean and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
TESA: A Task in Entity Semantic Aggregation for Abstractive Summarization
Clément Jumel, Annie Louis and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
EMNLP 2020
(2020-11-01)
aclanthology.org
Deconstructing word embedding algorithms
Kian Kenyon-Dean, Edward Newell and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
TeMP: Temporal Message Passing for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Jiapeng Wu, Meng Cao, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and William L. Hamilton
Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summarization Models.
Meng Cao, Yue Dong, Jiapeng Wu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2020-10

Multi-Fact Correction in Abstractive Text Summarization
Yue Dong, Shuohang Wang, Zhe Gan, Yu Cheng, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Jingjing Liu

2020-07

On Variational Learning of Controllable Representations for Text without Supervision
Peng Xu, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Yanshuai Cao

2020-06

Learning Lexical Subspaces in a Distributional Vector Space
Kushal Arora, Aishik Chakraborty and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(2020-06-17)
direct.mit.edu

2020-05

Discourse-Aware Unsupervised Summarization of Long Scientific Documents
Yue Dong, Andrei Mircea and Jackie C. K. Cheung
arXiv: Computation and Language
(2020-05-01)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
HipoRank: Incorporating Hierarchical and Positional Information into Graph-based Unsupervised Long Document Extractive Summarization
Yue Dong, Andrei Romascanu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv: Computation and Language
(2020-05-01)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF

2020-04

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-DOMAIN TRANSFERABLE NEURAL COHERENCE MODEL
Cao Yanshuai, Xu Peng Z, Saghir Hamidreza, Kang Jin Sung, Long Leo and Cheung Jackie C K
(venue unknown)
(2020-04-30)
lens.org

2020-01

Investigating the Influence of Selected Linguistic Features on Authorship Attribution using German News Articles.
Manuel Sage, Pietro Cruciata, Raed Abdo, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
SwissText/KONVENS
(2020-01-01)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF

2019-11

Deconstructing and reconstructing word embedding algorithms
Edward Newell, Kian Kenyon-Dean and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.13280
(2019-11-29)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
On Posterior Collapse and Encoder Feature Dispersion in Sequence VAEs
Teng Long, Yanshuai Cao and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv: Learning
(2019-11-10)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
Preventing Posterior Collapse in Sequence VAEs with Pooling
Teng Long, Yanshuai Cao and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
(venue unknown)
(2019-11-10)
dblp.uni-trier.de
Can a Gorilla Ride a Camel? Learning Semantic Plausibility from Text
Ian Porada, Kaheer Suleman and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing
(2019-11-01)
www.aclweb.org[LATEST on arXiv: Computation and Language (2019-11-13)]
Referring Expression Generation Using Entity Profiles

2019-09

Countering the Effects of Lead Bias in News Summarization via Multi-Stage Training and Auxiliary Losses.
Matt Grenander, Yue Dong, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Annie Louis
How Reasonable are Common-Sense Reasoning Tasks: A Case-Study on the Winograd Schema Challenge and SWAG
Paul Trichelair, Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2019-07

Generating Character Descriptions for Automatic Summarization of Fiction.
Weiwei Zhang, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Joel Oren
AAAI 2019
(2019-07-17)
aaai.org
Learning Multi-Task Communication with Message Passing for Sequence Learning
Pengfei Liu, Jie Fu, Yue Dong, Xipeng Qiu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
AAAI 2019
(2019-07-17)
aaai.orgPDF
Contextualized Non-Local Neural Networks for Sequence Learning
Pengfei Liu, Shuaichen Chang, Xuanjing Huang, Jian Tang and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
A Cross-Domain Transferable Neural Coherence Model
Peng Xu, Hamidreza Saghir, Jin Sung Kang, Teng Long, Avishek Joey Bose, Yanshuai Cao and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2019-06

The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution
Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Hannes Schulz and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Understanding the Behaviour of Neural Abstractive Summarizers using Contrastive Examples
Krtin Kumar and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
NAACL 2019
(2019-06-01)
aclanthology.org
EditNTS: An Neural Programmer-Interpreter Model for Sentence Simplification through Explicit Editing
Yue Dong, Zichao Li, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2019-05

Unsupervised Controllable Text Generation with Global Variation Discovery and Disentanglement.
Peng Xu, Yanshuai Cao and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
(venue unknown)
(2019-05-28)
dblp.uni-trier.de

2019-01

What comes next? Extractive summarization by next-sentence prediction.
Jingyun Liu, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Annie Louis
arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03859
(2019-01-12)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF

2018-12

Clustering-Oriented Representation Learning with Attractive-Repulsive Loss.
Kian Kenyon-Dean, Andre Cianflone, Lucas Page-Caccia, Guillaume Rabusseau, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Doina Precup
arXiv: Learning
(2018-12-18)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
On the Evaluation of Common-Sense Reasoning in Natural Language Understanding
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Paul Trichelair, Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Fernando Diaz
Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning NeurIPS 2018 Workshop
(2018-12-07)

2018-11

Multi-task Learning over Graph Structures.
Pengfei Liu, Jie Fu, Yue Dong, Xipeng Qiu and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10211
(2018-11-26)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF
On the Evaluation of Common-Sense Reasoning in Natural Language Understanding.
Paul Trichelair, Ali Emami, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Fernando Diaz
arXiv: Learning
(2018-11-05)
www.microsoft.comPDF

2018-10

A Knowledge Hunting Framework for Common Sense Reasoning
Ali Emami, Noelia De La Cruz, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2018-07

Let’s do it “again”: A First Computational Approach to Detecting Adverbial Presupposition Triggers
Andre Cianflone, Yulan Feng, Jad Kabbara and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

2018-06

Coarse Lexical Frame Acquisition at the Syntax–Semantics Interface Using a Latent-Variable PCFG Model
Laura Kallmeyer, Behrang QasemiZadeh and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
JCLCS 2018
(2018-06-01)
aclanthology.org
A Generalized Knowledge Hunting Framework for the Winograd Schema Challenge
Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
NAACL 2018
(2018-06-01)
aclanthology.org
Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization.
Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Doina Precup
Commonsense mining as knowledge base completion? A study on the impact of novelty
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Seyedarian Hosseini, Michael Noukhovitch, Yoshua Bengio and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Proceedings of the Workshop on Generalization in the Age of Deep Learning
(2018-06-01)
www.aclweb.org[Also on arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09259 (2018-04-24)]

2018-05

Constructing a Lexicon of Relational Nouns
Edward Newell and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
LREC 2018
(2018-05-01)
www.lrec-conf.org

2018-01

A Hierarchical Neural Attention-based Text Classifier
Koustuv Sinha, Yue Dong, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Derek Ruths
EMNLP 2018
(2018-01-01)
aclanthology.org
BanditSum: Extractive Summarization as a Contextual Bandit
Yue Dong, Yikang Shen, Eric Crawford, Herke van Hoof and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

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