Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
張智傑 [Cantonese wav]
M.Sc. Student
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 King's College Rd., Room 3302
Toronto, Ontario  M5S 3G4
Canada
Office: Pratt 283E - (416) 946-4005
E-mail: jcheung with the usual suffix (@cs.toronto.edu)

Hello! I am a second-year Master's student in the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Toronto. I am supervised by Gerald Penn.

Here is a bibliography of papers I have at least skimmed through most of, that gives an impression of my current research area.

Research Interests

  • Parsing and applications of parsing in freer word order languages
  • Statistical models of parsing
  • Natural language generation and summarization

Education

2008-currentM.Sc. in computer science at the University of Toronto
2004-2008B.Sc. (Honours) in computer science, minors in linguistics and German at the University of British Columbia.
Honours thesis: Comparing Abstractive and Extractive Summarization of Evaluative Text: Controversiality and Content Selection, supervised by Giuseppe Carenini. [pdf]

Publications

J.C.K. Cheung, G. Carenini and R. T. Ng. 2009. Optimization-based Content Selection for Opinion Summarization. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation (UCNLG+Sum), pages 7-14. [pdf]
J.C.K. Cheung and G. Penn. 2009. Topological Field Parsing of German. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), pages 64-72. [pdf]
G. Carenini and J.C.K. Cheung. 2008. Extractive vs. NLG-based Abstractive Summarization of Evaluative Text: The Effect of Corpus Controversiality. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG-08), pages 33-41. [pdf]

Courses

Fall 2009 CSC2125 - Topics in Software Engineering: Program Analysis, Azadeh Farzan
CSC2517 - Discrete Mathematical Models of Sentence Structure, Gerald Penn
Winter 2009 CSC2411 - Linear and Semidefinite Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Avner Magen
CSC2540 - Machine Learning and Universal Grammar, Shalom Lappin
Fall 2008CSC2501 - Computational Linguistics, Graeme Hirst
Fall 2007CPSC 503 - Computational Linguistics, Giuseppe Carenini @ UBC

Teaching

I am or have been a TA for the following courses.

Fall 2009CSC108 - Introduction to Computer Programming
Winter 2009CSC165 - Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science, Francois Pitt
Fall 2008CSC236 - Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Danny Heap
Winter 2007CPSC 213 - Introduction to Computer Systems, Donald Acton
Summer 2006CPSC 221 - Basic Algorithms and Data Structures, Stephane Durocher
CPSC 121 - Models of Computation, David Sprague

CV

For my full CV, please send me an e-mail.