--- title: "Xiang Kong — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Xiang Kong, Apple: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiang Kong # Xiang Kong Xiang Kong has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Antonios Anastasopoulos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/), [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/), [Jiatao Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiatao-gu/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109393622) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109393622) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109393622) · [798 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109393622&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 144 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4109](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4109) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Xiang+Kong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiang+Kong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiang+Kong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiang+Kong) ## Affiliations [🏢**Apple** Cupertino · United States 2024 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/apple/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2019–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2016–2017 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Shandong Jiaotong University** Jinan · China 2013–2014 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01848hk04) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics** Nijmegen · Netherlands 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-psycholinguistics/) · [🎓**Qufu Normal University** Qufu · China 2017 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03ceheh96) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper Fully Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: Tricks of the Trade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gu-2021-fully-non-autoregressive-neural-machine/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Generalized Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2019-generalized-data-augmentation-low-resource/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generalized Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2019-generalized-data-augmentation-low-resource/)** *(2019 · 177 citations)* Neural MT for low-resource languages (LRLs) is hampered by tiny parallel corpora. Ordinary back-translation also helps little here, because the reverse model is itself trained on scarce data. Xia et al. propose a unified augmentation framework that draws on every available resource: English monolingual text, parallel… 2. **[Fully Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: Tricks of the Trade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gu-2021-fully-non-autoregressive-neural-machine/)** *(2021 · 141 citations)* Fully non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models produce every target token in a single parallel forward pass. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Generalized Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2019-generalized-data-augmentation-low-resource/)**Mengzhou Xia, Xiang Kong, Antonios Anastasopoulos, et al.*[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 177 citations* 2. **[Fully Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: Tricks of the Trade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gu-2021-fully-non-autoregressive-neural-machine/)**Jiatao Gu, Xiang Kong*[Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) · 141 citations* 3. **[Neural Machine Translation with Adequacy-Oriented Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08541) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:1811.08541**Xiang Kong et al.*2018 · 45 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Antonios Anastasopoulos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/) - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Jiatao Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiatao-gu/) - [Mengzhou Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengzhou-xia/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 144 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026