Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
About
Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2018
Renewed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2023
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung is an associate professor at McGill University’s School of Computer Science, where he co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. He is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and an Associate Scientific Co-Director at the Mila Quebec AI Institute. His research focuses on topics in natural language generation such as automatic summarization, and on integrating diverse knowledge sources into NLP systems for pragmatic and common-sense reasoning. He also works on applications of NLP to domains such as education, health, and language revitalization. He is motivated in particular by how the structure of the world can be reflected in the structure of language processing systems. He is a consulting researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal.
Awards
- Best Short Paper Award Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022
- Best Paper Award Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
- Facebook Fellowship, 2013
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2012
Relevant Publications
- Cao, M., Dong, Y., He J., Cheung J.C.K. (2022). Learning with Rejection for Abstractive Text Summarization. EMNLP.
- Emami, A., Porada, I., Olteanu, A., Suleman, K., Trischler, A., & Cheung, J. C. K. (2021). ADEPT: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task.
- Xu, P., Kumar, D., Yang, W., Zi, W., Tang, K., Huang, C., … & Cao, Y. (2021). Optimizing deeper transformers on small datasets.
- Wu, J., Xu, Y., Zhang, Y., Ma, C., Coates, M., & Cheung, J. C. K. (2021). TIE: A Framework for Embedding-based Incremental Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion.
- Porada, I., Suleman, K., Trischler, A., & Kit Cheung, J. C. (2021). Modeling Event Plausibility with Consistent Conceptual Abstraction.
- Socolof, M., Cheung, J. C. K., Wagner, M., & O’Donnell, T. J. (2021). Characterizing Idioms: Conventionality and Contingency