PUBLICATIONS OF GOKHAN TUR

• 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 21, 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 31, 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. 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)

  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 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 for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing at ACL'05, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for 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, March, 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, March, 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.