Recent Publications

Theses

Esra Vural, "A Prosodic Turkish Text-To-Speech Synthesizer", MS Thesis, June 2003 (pdf)

Aydın Akyol, "Filler Model Based Word Level Confidence Measures for Spoken Dialogue Systems", MS Thesis, June 2003 (pdf)

İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, "Retrieving Words from Their Meanings", MS Thesis, June 2003 (pdf)

Alisher Kholmatov, "Biometric Identity Verification Using On-Line & Off-Line Signature Verification", MS Thesis, June 2003 (pdf)

Yasin Yılmaz, "Vi-XFST; A Visual Interface for Xerox Finite-state Toolkit", MS Thesis, June 2003 (pdf)

Papers

2008

Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre and Kemal Oflazer, Dependency Parsing of Turkish, To Appear in Computational Linguistics

2007

Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı and Kemal Oflazer, "A MT System from Turkmen to Turkish Employing Finite State and Statistical Methods", in Proceedings of MT Summit XI, 2007(pdf)

Kemal Oflazer and İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, "Exploring Different Representational Units in English-to-Turkish Statistical Machine Translation", in Proceedings of Statistical Machine Translation Workshop at ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007(pdf)

Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı and Kemal Oflazer, "Machine Translation between Turkic Languages", in Proceedings of ACL 2007 - Companion Volume, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007(pdf)

2006

Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre and Kemal Oflazer, "The Incremental Use of Morphological Information and Lexicalization in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing", in Proceedings of ICCPOL 2006, The 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Singapore, December 2006.

Ahmet Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı, Kemal Oflazer, "Lexical Ambiguity Resolution for Turkish in Direct Transfer Machine Translation Models", in Proceedings of ISCIS, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2006.

Özlem Çetinoğlu and Kemal Oflazer, "Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG", in Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 2006 (pdf).

M. Oguzhan Kulekci and Kemal Oflazer, "An Infrastructure for Turkish Prosody Generation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2006), 2006

İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout and Kemal Oflazer, "İstatistiksel Çeviri Sistemi için Türkçe ve İngilizce Metinlerin Eşleştirilmesi", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2006), 2006

Özlem Çetinoglu and Kemal Oflazer, "Altsözcüksel Birimlerle Türkçe için Sözcüksel İşlevsel Gramer Geliştirilmesi", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2006), 2006

Gülşen Eryiğit, Eşref Adalı, Kemal Oflazer, "Türkçe Cümlelerin Kural Tabanlı Bağlılık Analizi", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2006), 2006

Ahmet Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı, Kemal Oflazer, "A Prototype Machine Translation System Between Turkmen and Turkish", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN 2006), 2006

İlknur Durgar-El-Kahlout and Kemal Oflazer, "Initial Explorations in English to Turkish Statistical Machine Translation", Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, New York, NY, June 2006 (pdf).

Gülşen Eryiğit and Kemal Oflazer, "Statistical Dependency Parsing for Turkish", in Proceedings of EACL 2006 - The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 2006 (pdf).

Kemal Oflazer and Sharon Inkelas, "The Architecture and the Implementation of a Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish", Computer Speech and Language, Volume: 20, No: 1, 2006.

H. Büyükbayrak, B. Yanıkoğlu, A. Erçil, "Çevrimiçi Elle Yazılmış Matematiksel İfade Tanıma", Proceedings of SİU 2006, Antalya, Turkey.

2005

Osman Büyük, Hakan Erdoğan, Kemal Oflazer, "Incorporating language constraints in sub-word based speech recognition", in Proceedings of ASRU 2005 - IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, November 2005, Cancun, Mexico.

Kemal Oflazer, Dinçer Erbaş and Müge Erdoğmuş, "Using Finite State Technology in a Tool for Linguistic Exploration, in Proceedings of FSMNLP 2005, LNAI, Helsinki, Finland, September, 2005.

Oğuzhan Külekçi, Kemal Oflazer, "Pronunciation Disambiguation in Turkish", in Proceedings of ISCIS, LNCS, October 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ilknur Durgar-El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, "Aligning Turkish and English Parallel Texts for Statistical Machine Translation", in Proceedings of ISCIS, LNCS, Oct, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

Kemal Oflazer and Sharon Inkelas, "The Architecture and the Implementation of a Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish, to appear in Computer Speech and Language, 2005.

Esra Vural, Hakan Erdogan, Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanikoglu, "An Online Handwriting recognition system for Turkish", in Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, 2005.

2004

Hakan Erdogan, Ruhi Sarikaya, Stanley F. Chen, Yuqing Gao, Michael Picheny,"Using semantic analysis to improve speech recognition performance", to appear in Computer Speech and Language, 2004.

Ruhi Sarikaya, Yuqing Gao, Michael Picheny, Hakan Erdogan , "Semantic confidence measurement for spoken dialog systems", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2004.

Kemal Oflazer, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Orhan Bilgin, Bilge Say, "A Preprocessor for Turkish Text Analysis", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280 -- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey. (abstract)

Kemal Oflazer, Pınar Dönmez, "SmartReader: An NLP-based Interactive Reading Application for Language Learning", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280-- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.(abstract)

Kemal Oflazer, Yasin Yılmaz, "Developing Finite State NLP Systems with a Graphical Environment", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280-- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.(abstract)

Kemal Oflazer, Yasin Yılmaz, "Vi-xfst: A Visual Regular Expression Development Environment for Xerox Finite State Tool", in Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Sigphon Workshop, July 2004, Barcelona, Spain.(pdf)

Kemal Oflazer, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Bilge Say, "Integrating Morphology with Multiword Expression Processing in Turkish", in Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. (pdf)

Orhan Bilgin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Kemal Oflazer, "Building a Wordnet for Turkish", in Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 7, Num. 1-2, 2004. (ps)

Orhan Bilgin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Kemal Oflazer, "Efficient Find-and-Replace in Agglutinative Languages: the Case of Turkish", unpublished report. (doc)

Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas, "The Design and Implementation of a Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish", Submitted (pdf)

Orhan Bilgin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Kemal Oflazer, "Morphosemantic Relations In and Across Wordnets: A Study Based on Turkish", in Proceedings of the Global WordNet Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, January 2004. (ps)

İlknur Durgar-El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, "Use of WordNet for Retrieving Words from Their Meanings" in Proceedings of the Global WordNet Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, January 2004. (ps)

Hakan Erdogan , "Subspace kernel discriminant analysis for speech recognition", Robust 2004 workshop, Norwich UK , September 2004.

Aydin Akyol, Hakan Erdogan , "Filler model based confidence measures for spoken dialogue systems: a case study for Turkish", ICASSP 2004.

Aydin Akyol, Hakan Erdogan , "Sesli diyalog sistemlerinde dolgu modeli kullanarak güvenilirlik ölçümü", SIU 2004.

Esra Vural, Hakan Erdogan , Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanikoglu, "Türkçe için tablet PC ortamında çevrimiçi yazı tanıma sistemi", SIU 2004.

2003

İlknur Durgar-El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, "Retrieving Words from Their Meanings", 1st Balkan Conference in Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 21-23, 2003. (pdf)

Kemal Oflazer (Editor), "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages", IOS Press, 2003

Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas, "A Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish Based on Two-Level Morphology", to appear in Proceedings of Eurospeech September 1-4, Geneva, Switzerland (pdf)

Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas, "A Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish", in Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Finite State Methods in NLP, April 13-14, 2003, Budapest, Hungary (pdf)

Kemal Oflazer, "Lenient Morphological Analysis, Natural Language Engineering", Special Issue on Finite State Methods in NLP , Vol 9, No:1, 2003.(pdf)

Kemal Oflazer, "Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite-state Approach", in Computational Linguistics, 2003.(pdf)

Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Alisher Kholmatov, "Turkish handwritten text recognition: A Case of Agglutinative Languages",Proceedings of SPIE, January 2003. (pdf) (pdf in Turkish)

Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Alisher Kholmatov, "An improved decision criterion for genuine/forgery classification in on-line signature verification", Proceedings of ICANN, 2003.(pdf)

2002

Sofia Stamou, Kemal Oflazer, Karel Pala, Dimitris Christoudoulakis, Dan Cristea, Dan Tufis, Svetla Koeva, George Totkov, Dominique Dutoit, Maria Grigoriadou, "Balkanet: A multilingual Semantic Network for Balkan Languages", In Proceedings of the First International WordNet Conference, Mysore India, January 2002.

Kemal Oflazer, "Computational Morphology", in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, McMillan Reference Ltd, 2002.

Hakan Erdogan, Ruhi Sarikaya, Yuqing Gao, Michael Picheny, "Semantic Structured language models",ICSLP 2002. (pdf)