Kian Ming A. Chai

Also published as: Kian Ming Adam Chai


2025

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Colloquial Singaporean English Style Transfer with Fine-Grained Explainable Control
Jinggui Liang | Dung Vo | Yap Hong Xian | Hai Leong Chieu | Kian Ming A. Chai | Jing Jiang | Lizi Liao
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish) is an informal English marked by a unique blend of languages reflecting Singapore’s multicultural identity. Style transfer between Singlish and Standard (formal) English is vital for various applications, yet existing methods often lack explainability and fine-grained control. To fill this gap, we contribute in two key ways. First, we construct a large, high-quality dataset of formal and informal sentences, annotated across six linguistic aspects—Syntax, Lexical Borrowing, Pragmatics, Prosody/Phonology, Emoticons/Punctuation, and Code-Switching—with detailed explanations. Starting with manually annotated cases, we scaled the dataset to 140K with ensured quality. Second, inspired by the “Society of Mind” theory, we propose a novel multi-agent framework where large language models (LLMs) act as expert agents for each linguistic aspect. These agents collaborate by iteratively generating, critiquing, and refining responses to achieve controlled, explainable style transfer. Both automatic metrics and human evaluations confirm that our method enables precise, interpretable transformations, advancing explainability in NLP for Singlish.

2024

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An Empirical Analysis of the Writing Styles of Persona-Assigned LLMs
Manuj Malik | Jing Jiang | Kian Ming A. Chai
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2015

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Flexible Domain Adaptation for Automated Essay Scoring Using Correlated Linear Regression
Peter Phandi | Kian Ming A. Chai | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2014

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Robust Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction via Clustering Consistency
Minh Luan Nguyen | Ivor W. Tsang | Kian Ming A. Chai | Hai Leong Chieu
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2012

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Domain Adaptation for Coreference Resolution: An Adaptive Ensemble Approach
Jian Bo Yang | Qi Mao | Qiao Liang Xiang | Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang | Kian Ming Adam Chai | Hai Leong Chieu
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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Unsupervised Information Extraction with Distributional Prior Knowledge
Cane Wing-ki Leung | Jing Jiang | Kian Ming A. Chai | Hai Leong Chieu | Loo-Nin Teow
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Extracting Relation Descriptors with Conditional Random Fields
Yaliang Li | Jing Jiang | Hai Leong Chieu | Kian Ming A. Chai
Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing