Gokhan TUR

SRI International,
Speech Technology and Research Lab
333 Ravenswood Ave.,
Room EJ113
Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Phone: (650) 859 5977
Fax: (650) 859 5984
e-mail: gokhan@speech.sri.com
web: http://www.speech.sri.com/people/gokhan

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog
• Natural Language and Speech Processing
• Machine Learning
• Spoken Dialog Systems
• Information Extraction
• Machine Translation

WORK EXPERIENCE

• December 2005 - today: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
  
  Speech Technology and Research Lab
  
  Researcher
  

  May 2004 - December 2005: AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ
  

  Voice Enabled Services Research Lab
  

  Senior Technical Specialist
  

  February 2001 - May 2004: AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ
  

  Voice Enabled Services Research Lab
  

  Senior Technical Staff Member
  

  September 2000 - February 2001: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Department of Computer Engineering
  

  Instructor
  

  July 1998 - July 1999: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

  Speech Technology and Research Laboratory
  

  International Fellow
  

  October 1997 - July 1998: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  

  Department of Computer Science
  

  Center for Language and Speech Processing

  Visiting Scientist

  June 1997 - September 1997: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  

  School of Computer Science
  

  Language Technologies Institute
  

  (Center for Machine Translation)
  

  Short Term Scholar

  September 1994 - August 2000: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Department of Computer Engineering
  

  Research Assistant
  

  Teaching Assistant
  

  August 1993: ASELSAN, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Information Systems Directorate
  

  Summer Intern
  

  August 1992: KOC-UNISYS, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Summer Intern
  

EDUCATION

• October 1996 - August 2000: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  
  Department of Computer Engineering
  
  Ph.D. student (GPA: 3.74/4.00)
  
  Supervised by: Prof. Kemal Oflazer

• October 1997 - July 1998: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  
  Department of Computer Science
  
  Visiting Scientist
  
  Supervised by: Dr. Eric. Brill

• August 1996: ESSLLI'96, Prague, Czech Republic
  
  European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI'96)

  September 1994 - September 1996: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science
  

  M.Sc. student (GPA: 3.76/4.00)
  

  High Honor Degree
  

  Supervised by: Prof. Kemal Oflazer

  October 1990 - June 1994: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  

  Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science
  

  Undergraduate student (GPA: 3.36/4.00)
  

  Honor Degree
  

  Scholarship awarded by the university
  

  Scholarship awarded by Turkish Educational Foundation (TEV)
  

  September 1983 - June 1990: Ankara Ataturk Anatolian High School, Ankara, Turkey
  

  High Honor Student
  

PUBLICATIONS

• Theses

  1. Gokhan Tur, A Statistical Information Extraction System for Turkish. Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis, Ankara, Turkey, 2000.

  2. Gokhan Tur, Using Multiple Sources of Information for Constraint-based Morphological Disambiguation. Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Department, Master's Thesis, Ankara, Turkey, 1996.

• Tutorials

  1. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Spoken Language Understanding. At ICASSP'07, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu HI, April 2007.

  2. Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Adaptive Learning: From Supervised to Active Learning of Statistical Models for Natural Language and Speech Processing. At ACL'04, 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.

  3. Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Adaptive Learning: Technology and Challenges for Automatic Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Understanding. At EUROSPEECH'03, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2003.

• Demos

  1. Svetlana Stenchikova, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, QASR: Spoken Question Answering Using Semantic Role Labeling. Presented at ASRU-2005, 9th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Puerto Rico, December, 2005.

• Journals

  1. Gokhan Tur, Extending Boosting for Large Scale Spoken Language Understanding. To appear in the Journal of Machine Learning, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 55-74, October 2007.

  2. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Bootstrapping Spoken Dialogue Systems by Exploiting Reusable Libraries. To appear in the Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

  3. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Giuseppe Riccardi, Gokhan Tur, An Active Approach to Spoken Language Processing. In the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1-31, 2006.

  4. Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Introduction to the Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems. In the Journal of Speech Communication Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, pp. 233-238, 2006.

  5. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Frédéric Béchet, Giuseppe Riccardi, Gokhan Tur, Beyond ASR 1-Best: Using Word Confusion Networks in Spoken Language Understanding. In the Journal of Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 495-514, October 2006.

  6. Narendra Gupta, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Riccardi, Mazin Rahim, The AT&T Spoken Language Understanding System. In the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 213-222, January 2006.

  7. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Robert E. Schapire, Combining Active and Semi-Supervised Learning for Spoken Language Understanding. In the Journal of Speech Communication, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 171-186, 2005. (Best Paper Award by ISCA and EURASIP)

  8. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, A Statistical Information Extraction System for Turkish. In the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 181-210, 2003.
  9. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages. In the Journal of Computers and Humanities, Vol. 36, No. 4, November 2002.
  10. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Integrating Prosodic and Lexical Cues for Automatic Topic Segmentation. In the Journal of Computational Linguistics, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 2001.
  11. Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics. In the Journal of Speech Communication special issue on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2, September 2000.
  12. Ze'ev Rivlin, Robert Bolles, Douglas Appelt, Adam Cheyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, David Israel, Luc Julia, David Martin, Greg Myers, Ken Nitz, Bikash Sabata, Ananth Sankar, Elizabeth Shriberg, Kemal Sönmez, Andreas Stolcke, Gokhan Tur, MAESTRO: Conductor of Multimedia Analysis Technologies. In the Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2, February 2000.

• Book Chapters

  1. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Yucel Saygin, Min Tang, Document Sanitization in the Age of Data Mining, Chapter in Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation, Katherine J. Strandburg, Daniela Stan Raicu (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005.

  2. Yucel Saygin, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories, Chapter in Web and Information Security, Elena Ferrari and Bhavani Thuraisingham (Eds.), IRM Press, 2005.

  3. Kemal Oflazer, Bilge Say, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Building a Turkish Treebank, Chapter in Building and Using Parsed Corpora, Anne Abeillé (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

  4. Dilek Hakkani, Gokhan Tur, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, Kemal Oflazer, An English to Turkish Interlingual Machine Translation System, In the Machine Translation and the Information Soup, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 1529, David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998.

• Conferences

  1. Michael Levit, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Integrating Several Annotation Layers for Statistical Information Distillation. In the proceedings of ASRU-2007, 10th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Kyoto, Japan, December, 2007.

  2. Umit Guz, Sébastien Cuendet, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Co-training Using Prosodic and Lexical Information for Sentence Segmentation. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'07, 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2007.

  3. Gokhan Tur, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Sachin Kajarekar, Duration and Pronunciation Conditioned Lexical Modeling for Speaker Verification. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'07, 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2007.

  4. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Michael Levit Exploiting Information Extraction Annotations for Document Retrieval in Distillation Tasks. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'07, 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2007.

  5. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Statistical Sentence Extraction for Information Distillation. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu HI, April 2007.

  6. Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation for Meeting Recognition. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu HI, April 2007.

  7. Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Luciana Ferrer, Sachin Kajarekar, Kemal Sonmez, Gokhan Tur, Speech Recognition as Feature Extraction for Speaker Recognition. In the proceedings of SAFE 2007, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Applications for Public Security and Forensics, Washington D.C., April 2007.

  8. Gokhan Tur, Umit Guz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Model Adaptation for Dialog Act Tagging. In the proceedings of SLT 2006, 1st biannual IEEE/ACL workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Aruba, December 2006.

  9. Sébastien Cuendet, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Model Adaptation for Sentence Segmentation from Speech. In the proceedings of SLT 2006, 1st biannual IEEE/ACL workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Aruba, December 2006.

  10. Svetlana Stenchikova, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, QASR: Question Answering Using Semantic Roles for Speech Interface. In the proceedings of Interspeech 2006 ICSLP, the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburg PA, September, 2006.

  11. Gokhan Tur, Multitask Learning for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2006, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May, 2006.

  12. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Semi-Supervised Learning for Spoken Language Understanding Using Semantic Role Labeling. In the proceedings of IEEE ASRU-2005, 9th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Puerto Rico, December, 2005.

  13. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Automated Wizard-of-Oz for Spoken Dialogue Systems. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'05, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2005.

  14. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Using Syntactic and Semantic Graphs for Call Classification. In the proceedings of the Workshop on Feature Engineering, at ACL 2005, the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005.

  15. Gokhan Tur, Model Adaptation for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, May 2005.

  16. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Giuseppe Riccardi, Hong Kook Kim, Error Prediction in Spoken Dialog: From Signal-to-Noise Ratio to Semantic Confidence Scores. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, May 2005.

  17. Gokhan Tur, Cost Sensitive Call Classification. In the proceedings of ICSLP-2004, the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2004.

  18. Min Tang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Preserving Privacy in Spoken Language Databases. In the proceedings of International Workshop on Privacy and Security Issues in Data Mining at ECML/PKDD, The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Pisa, Italy, September 2004.

  19. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Giuseppe Riccardi, Extending Boosting for Call Classification Using Word Confusion Networks. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2004, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

  20. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Mazin Rahim, Giuseppe Riccardi, Unsupervised and Active Learning in Automatic Speech Recognition for Call Classification. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2004, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

  21. Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Bootstrapping Spoken Dialog Systems with Data Reuse. In the proceedings of SIGDIAL-2004, 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Cambridge, MA, May 2004.

  22. Mercan Karahan, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Giuseppe Riccardi, Gokhan Tur, Combining Classifiers for Spoken Language Understanding In the proceedings of ASRU-2003, 8th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 2003.

  23. Gokhan Tur, Mazin Rahim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Active Labeling for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'03, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.

  24. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Exploiting Unlabeled Utterances for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of EUROSPEECH'03, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.

  25. Gokhan Tur, Robert E. Schapire, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Active Learning for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2003, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, April 2003.

  26. Patrick Haffner, Gokhan Tur, Jerry Wright, Optimizing SVMs for Complex Call Classification. In the proceedings of ICASSP-2003, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, April 2003.

  27. Gokhan Tur, Patrick Haffner, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Exploiting FSM and LLAMA Libraries for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of AT&T Speech Days, a Symposium on Speech and Information Processing with the twin themes of Speech Data Mining and Speech Research Software Libraries. Florham Park, NJ, October 2002.

  28. Gokhan Tur, Jerry Wright, Allen Gorin, Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Improving Spoken Language Understanding Using Word Confusion Networks. In the proceedings of ICSLP-2002, the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, CO, September 2002.

  29. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages. In the proceedings of COLING-2000, the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000.

  30. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Name Tagging Using Lexical, Contextual, and Morphological Information. In the proceedings of the Workshop on Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics, at LREC-2000, 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens, Greece, June 2000.

  31. Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur,Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Combining Words and Prosody for Information Extraction from Speech. In the proceedings of the EUROSPEECH'99, 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.

  32. Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Modeling the Prosody of Hidden Events for Improved Word Recognition. In the proceedings of the EUROSPEECH'99, 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.

  33. Kemal Oflazer, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Design for a Turkish Treebank. In the proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, at EACL'99, 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bergen, Norway, June 1999.

  34. Ramana Rao Gadde, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Prosody Modeling for Speech Recognition and Understanding. In the proceedings of NIST Hub-5 Conversational Speech Understanding Workshop, Linthicum Heights, MD, June 1999.

  35. Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ze'ev Rivlin, Kemal Sönmez, Combining Words and Speech Prosody for Automatic Topic Segmentation. In the proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Herndon, VA, 1999.

  36. Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Mari Ostendorf, Dilek Hakkani, Madelaine Plauché, Gokhan Tur, Yu Lu, Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries and Disfluencies based on Recognized Words. In the proceedings of ICSLP'98, the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sidney, Australia, December 1998.

  37. Dilek Hakkani, Gokhan Tur, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, Kemal Oflazer, An English to Turkish Interlingual Machine Translation System. In the proceedings of AMTA'98, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Langhorne, PA, October 1998.

  38. Gokhan Tur, Kemal Oflazer, Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints. In the Proceedings of COLING-ACL'98, the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Canada, August 1998.

  39. Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Implementing Voting Constraints with Finite State Transducers. In the Proceedings of FSMNLP'98, Finite State Methods In Natural Language Processing, Ankara, Turkey, June 1998.

  40. Gokhan Tur, Kemal Oflazer, Using Path Voting Constraints for Tagging English. In the Proceedings of TAINN'98, Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 1998

  41. Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Morphological Disambiguation by Voting Constraints. In the Proceedings of ACL'97/EACL'97, the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain, July 1997.

  42. Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Unsupervised Learning in Constraint-based Morphological Disambiguation. In the Proceedings of EMNLP'96, Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP, Philadelphia, PA, May 1996.

  43. Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Using Multiple Information Resources for Morphological Disambiguation. In the Proceedings of TAINN'96, Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Conference, Istanbul, June 1996.

  44. Gokhan Tur, Halil Altay Güvenir, Decision Tree Induction Using Genetic Programming. In the Proceedings of TAINN'96, Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks Conference, Istanbul, June 1996.

• Technical Reports

  1. Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Statistical Modeling of Turkish for Automatic Topic Segmentation. Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Technical Report BU-CE-0001, Ankara, Turkey, January 2000.

  2. Dilek Hakkani, Gokhan Tur, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, Kemal Oflazer, Issues in Generating Turkish from Interlingua. Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Technical Report CMU-LTI-97-152, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997.

  3. Gokhan Tur, Kemal Oflazer, Nihat Özkan, Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints. Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Department Technical Report BU-CEIS-9704, Ankara, Turkey, 1997.

  4. Gokhan Tur, Bülent Tezcan, Fazli Can, An Analysis on Frame Sliced Signature Files. Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Department, Technical Report BU-CEIS-9426, Ankara, Turkey, 1994.

• Unpublished

  1. Gokhan Tur, Automatic Authorship Detection, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Senior Member.
• ISCA, International Speech Communication Association, Member.
• ACL, The Association for Computational Linguistics, Member.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Technical Committee Newsletter, Editor, 2006.

• IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Technical Committee, Member, 2006-2008.

• The Journal of Dialogue Systems, Member of the Editorial Board.

• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Reviewer.

• Journal of Computer Speech and Language, Reviewer.

• Journal of Speech Communication, Reviewer.

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Reviewer.

• Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Reviewer.

• ICASSP 2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing Area Chair, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
• ACL 2008, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Reviewer, Columbus, OH, June 2008.

• ASRU 2007, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scientific Committee Member, Kyoto, Japan, December 2007.

• NIPS 2007, Neural Information Processing Systems, Reviewer, Whistler, B.C., Canada, December 2007.

• SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Reviewer, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.

• Interspeech 2007, ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Spoken Language Understanding and Summarization Session Chair, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

• Interspeech 2007, ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Systems for Spoken Language Translation Session Chair, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

• Interspeech 2007, ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Reviewer, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

• ACL 2007, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
• Workshop entitled "Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies" at HLT-NAACL 2007, Organizer, Rochester, NY, April 2007.
• HLT/NAACL 2007, Spoken Dialog Area Chair, Rochester, NY, April 2007.
• ICASSP 2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing Area Chair, Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
• ICASSP 2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Understanding Session Chair, Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
• GALE PI Meeting, Technical Chair, San Francisco, CA, March 2007.
• SLT 2006, IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Finance Chair, Aruba, December 2006.

• SLT 2006, IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Reviewer, Aruba, December 2006.
• InterSpeech 2006, ISCA Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Reviewer, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.
• Speech Communication Journal, Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, Guest Editor, 2006.

• ICASSP 2006, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Modeling, Identification and Characterization Session Chair, Toulouse, France, May, 2006

• ASRU 2005, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Spoken Language Understanding Area Chair, Puerto Rico, November 2005.

• Israel Science Foundation, Grant Proposal Reviewer, 2005.

• HLT/EMNLP 2005, Human Language Technology Conference Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Reviewer, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October, 2005.

• EUSIPCO 2005, 13th European Signal Processing Conference, Reviewer, Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
• Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding at AAAI 2005, The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Organizer, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005.
• ICASSP 2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
• Special Session entitled: "Towards Adaptive Machines: Active and Unsupervised Learning", at ICSLP 2004, Eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Organizer, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2004.
• ICSLP 2004, Eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Reviewer, Jeju Island, Korea, October 2004.
• ACL 2004, The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
• Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems at HLT-NAACL 2004, Organizer, Boston, MA, May 2004.
• HLT-NAACL 2004, Human Language Technology Conference and Fifth Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Program Committee Member, Boston, MA, May 2004.
• ISCIS 2004, The 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, Reviewer, Antalya, Turkey, October 2004.

• New York Academy of Sciences, Science and Engineering Fair, New York City, NY, 2003, Judge.
• Special Session on Call Classification and Routing, at ICSLP 2002, Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Organizer, Denver, CO, September 2002.
• NAACL 2001, Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001.
• EACL'99, 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Session Reviewer, Bergen, Norway, June 1999.

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, and HONORS

• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Award for the Best Paper published in the Speech Communication Journal for 2004-2006

• The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) Award for the Best Paper published in the Speech Communication Journal for 2005-2006

• AT&T Software Excellence Award, How May I Help You? ACS Customer Care System, 2002.

• SRI International, Speech Technology and Research Lab, International Fellowship for 1 year, June 1998 - June 1999.
• Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing , Research Assistantship for 3 months, March 1998 - June 1998.
• Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK), NATO A-2 Scholarship for visiting Johns Hopkins University for 6 months, September 1997 - March 1998.
• Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Full Scholarship between 1990 and 2000.
• Turkish Educational Foundation (TEV) Scholarship between 1990 and 1994.
• Placed 85th among more than 1 million participants in the first phase of the national university entrance exam of Turkey, 1990.

• Placed 95th among 770,000 participants in the second phase of the national university entrance exam of Turkey, 1990.

• School representative in Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) Mathematics Olympic Contest, 1990.

TEACHING

• Mentored Fan Yang during his internship at SRI International, 2007.

• Mentored Umit Guz from July to December 2006.

• Mentored Svetlana Stenchikova during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2005.

• Mentored Ananlada Chotimongkol during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.

• Mentored Lingyun Zhang during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.

• Mentored Min Tang during his summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.

• Mentored Mercan Karahan during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2003.

• September 2000 - February 2001: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
  
  Department of Computer Engineering
  
  Instructor
  

OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Languages: Turkish (native), English (very good), German (intermediate)

• Date of Birth: November 30, 1972

• Married with one daughter.