Gokhan TUR Researcher Contact Information Gokhan TUR Speech Technology & Research Laboratory SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 (USA) Tel: (650) 859-5977 Fax: (650) 859-5984 Email:

News

• NSF Panelist, Human Language Technologies Area, 2008.

• ICASSP 2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing Area Chair, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
• 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

Research Interests

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

Short Bio

Gokhan Tur was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1972. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey in 1994, 1996, and 2000 respectively. Between 1997 and 1999, he visited the Center for Machine Translation of CMU, then the Department of Computer Science of Johns Hopkins University, and then the Speech Technology and Research Lab of SRI International. He worked at AT&T Labs - Research from 2001 to 2006. He is currently with the Speech Technology and Research Lab of SRI International. His research interests include spoken language understanding (SLU), speech and language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval and extraction. He co-authored more than 60 papers published in refereed journals and presented at international conferences. Dr. Tur is also the recipient of the Speech Communication Journal Best Paper awards by ISCA for 2004-2006 and by EURASIP for 2005-2006. Dr. Tur is the organizer of the HLT-NAACL 2007 Workshop on Spoken Dialog Technologies, and the HLT-NAACL 2004 and AAAI 2005 Workshops on SLU, and the editor of the Speech Communication Special Issue on SLU in 2006. He is also the spoken language processing area chair for IEEE ICASSP 2007 and IEEE ICASSP 2008 conferences, spoken dialog area chair for HLT-NAACL 2007 conference, finance chair for IEEE/ACL SLT 2006 workshop, and SLU area chair for IEEE ASRU 2005 workshop. Dr. Tur is a senior member of IEEE, ACL, and ISCA, and a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) for 2006-2008.

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Publications

Projects

• CALO
• GALE
• Speaker Verification