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Expert profile: Kemal Oflazer
| [ ID = 0118 ] | Kemal Oflazer |
|---|---|
| Name | Oflazer, Kemal |
| Job Title | Professor of Computer Science |
| Organisation | Sabanci University |
| Address | Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science, Sabanci |
| Postal Code | 35956 |
| City | Tuzla, Istanbul |
| Country | Turkey |
| Phone | + +90 216 483 9532 |
| Fax | + +90 216 483 9550 |
| Mobile | + |
| oflazer_(on)_sabanciuniv.edu [@ replaced for spam protection] | |
| Organisation URL | http://www.sabanciuniv.edu |
| Personal URL | http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~oflazer/ |
| Membership | ELSNET ACL |
| Languages | English |
| Specialism | Speechtechnology:
Computational Morphology Finite State Methods Finite State Tools Statistical Language Modeling |
| Photograph | Description or CV |
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Description: Language modeling (for agglutinative/inflecting
languages), computational morphology.
CURRICULUM VITAE
KEMAL OFLAZER
1. PERSONAL DATA
1.1 Birth date and place: September 19, 1955, Kayseri, Turkey
1.2 Address: Department of Computer Engineering and Information
Science
Bilkent University
06533 Bilkent
Ankara, Turkey
1.3 Phone: +90-216-483 9532
1.4 Fax: +90-216 -483 9550
1.5. E-mail:
oflazer@sabanciuniv.edu
1.6 Web:
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~ko/index.html
2. ACADEMIC DEGREES
2.1. Assoc. Prof., Computer Engineering (Tenured) Bilkent Univ.
1996
2.2. Assist. Prof., Computer Engineering Bilkent Univ. 1989
2.3. Ph.D., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ. 1987
2.4. M.S., Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical Univ. 1979
2.5. B.S., Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical Univ.
1978
3. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
3.1. 9/00 - Pres. Associate Professor of Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Sabanc) University
(stanbul, Turkey
3.1. 9/98-9/99 Visiting Scientist,
Computing Research Laboratory,
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
Host: Sergei Nirenburg
3.2 7/97-9/97 Visiting Scientist,
Xerox Research Centre Europe,
Grenoble, France.
Host: Lauri Karttunen
3.3 12/96 - 8/00. Associate Professor,
Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering
3.4 9/89-12/96 Assistant Professor,
Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering
3.5 2/86-8/89 Senior System Scientist,
Formative Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
3.6. 9/80-1/86 Graduate Research Assistant,
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science.
3.7 9/79-9/80 Research Assistant,
Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical Engineering
3.8 5/78-9/79 Research Assistant,
Middle East Technical University, Department of Computer Engineering
4.
AWARDS
TÜB(TAK (Turkish NSF)/ NATO Ph. D. scholarship during studies in
U.S.A. (1980-1981) Honorary Scholarship thereafter)
5. SCHOLARLY and PROFESSIONAL DUTIES
+ Member of the Editorial Board, Machine Translation Journal 1996 -.
+ Reviewer, ACL 2000, 38^th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong, Oct, 2000.
+ Co-organizer, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Language
Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages, July 2000.
Book Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Morphology and Phonology Program Committee Chair, COLING 2000,
International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Aug. 2000.
Member of the Advisory Board, NLP Book Series, John Benjamins
Publishers.
Reviewer, Computational Linguistics Journal, MIT Press.
Program Committee Member, EACL'99, Ninth Conference of the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, Bergen, Norway.
Reviewer, ACL'99, 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, College Park, MD, USA
Member of the Board (Nominating Commitee), European Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),
1999-
Program Committee Member, ISCIS XIII, The 13th International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya,
Turkey, 1998.
Program Committee Member, ACL/SIGDAT Third Conference On
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-3), Granada, Spain, 1998.
P rogram Committee Member for the Linguistic Resources &
Computational Methods Program Subcommittee and for
Morphology and Phonology Subcommittee, COLING'98/ACL'98
International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Montreal, Canada, 1998.
Co-organizer and Program Committee Co-chair, FSMNLP'98,
International Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural
Language Processing , Ankara, Turkey, 1998.
Program Committee Member, 7th Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks, Ankara,
Turkey, 1998.
Program Committee Member, NeMLaP-3 - International Conference on
New Methods in Language Processing , Sydney, Australia,
1998.
Program Committee Member, ACL/SIGDAT Second Conference On
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-2), Providence, RI, USA, 1997.
Program Committee Member, ACL/EACL'97 Conference, Madrid, Spain,
1997.
Program Committee Member, 6th Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks, Baskent
University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997.
Program Committee Co-chair and Organizing Committee Chair
NeMLaP-2, International Conference on New Methods on
Language Processing, ,Ankara, Turkey, 1996.
Program Committee Member for the Morphology Program Subcommittee
for International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, COLING'96 Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996.
Program Committee Member, 5th Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks, (TÜ,
(stanbul, Turkey, 1996.
Program Committee Co-chair 4th Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks TÜB(TAK,
Marmara Research Center, Gebze, Turkey, 1995.
Program Committee Co-chair, 3rd Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994.
Program Committee Member, 2nd Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1993.
General Chair, 1st Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
and Artificial Neural Networks Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey, 1992.
Program Committee Member, ISCIS VII, Seventh International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya,
Turkey, 1992.
Organizing Committee and Program Committee Member, ISCIS VI,
Sixth International Symposium on Computer and Information
Sciences Antalya, Turkey, 1991.
Program Committee Member, ISCIS V, Fifth International Symposium
on Computer and Information Sciences , Göreme, Nevflehir,
Turkey, 1990.
6.
MEMBERSHIP
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
7. INVITED TALKS
+ Natural Language Processing, Akademik Biliflim Conference, Invited
Talk at the Opening Ceremony, Feb 10, 2000, Süleyman Demirel
University, Isparta.
+ Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative
Languages, New Mexico State University, Computing Research Lab,
Las Cruces, NM, USA, January 13, 2000
Implementing a Turkish Morphological Analyzer with Xerox Finite
State Tools New Mexico State University, Computing
Research Lab, Las Cruces, NM, USA, February 24, 1998.
Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Using Voting Constraints
New Mexico State University, Computing Research Lab, Las
Cruces, NM, USA, February 25, 1998.
Morphological Disambiguation and Tagging by Voting Constraints
Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech
Processing, Baltimore MD, USA, March 31, 1997.
Two-level Morphological Description of Turkish and Morphological
Disambiguation of Turkish Text Cambridge University,
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, England, June 19, 1995.
Two-level Specification of Turkish Morphology Rank Xerox Research
Centre, Grenoble, France, October 12, 1994.
Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text Rank
Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France, October 11,
1994.
Highly Parallel Execution of Production Systems: A Model,
Algorithms and Architecture METU Regional Seminar on
Expert Systems and their Microcomputer Applications,
Ankara, May 1991.
Document Management: Issues and Experiences ISCIS IV, Fourth
International Symposium on Computer and Information
Sciences, Çesme, (zmir, Oct 1989.
8. ARTISTIC EXHIBITS OR PERFORMANCES
9.
TEACHING
1. Graduate Courses :
CS 532 Database Systems
CS 528 Parallel Processing for Non-numeric Applications
CS 552 Neurocomputing and Connectionist Modeling
CS 556 Readings in Machine Learning and Natural Language
CS 578 Natural Language Processing
CS 580 Advanced Finite State Techniques in Language Processing
9.2. Undergraduate Courses :
CS 201 Fundamental Structures of Computer Science I
CS 202 Fundamental Structures of Computer Science II
CS 280 Combinatorics and Graph Theory
CS 423 Computer Architecture
CS 454 Software Engineering
9.3 Other:
Computational Morphology, NMSU-CRL Summer School of Language
Engineering (July 1999)
Computational Morphology, NATO Advanced Study Institute on
Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages, (July 2000)
10.
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Dilek Hakkani-Tür Statistical Language Modeling for Turkish,
Ph.D., 9/96 - 8/2000
Gökhan Tür A Statistical Information Extraction System for
Turkish, Ph. D., 9/96 - 8/2000
Cemal Y)lmaz, A Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System for
Turkish, M. S. , 9/97 - 7/99.
Kurtulufl Yorulmaz, Design for a Computational Lexicon for
Turkish Natural Language Processing Applications, M.S.,
10/94 - 2/1997
Dilek. Hakkani, A Unification-based Generator for Turkish
Sentences, M.S., 5/95 - 7/96, (Co-advisor).
Gökhan Tür, Transformation-based Unsupervised Learning of Rules
for Morphological Disambiguation, M.S., 10/94 - 7/97
Okan. Y)lmaz, Design and implementation of a verb lexicon and a
verb sense disambiguator for Turkish, M.S., 10/92 - 9/94.
(lker. Kuruöz, Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of
Turkish Text , M.S., 10/92 - 7/94.
Coflkun Demir, An ATN Grammar for Turkish, M.S., 10/91 - 7/93.
Zelal Güngördü, A Lexical-Functional Grammar for Turkish, M.S.,
10/91 - 7/93. (Awarded Outstanding Work by a Young
Informatics Researcher award by Turkish Informatics
Society, 1994).
Gürhan Keskin, Design and Implementation of a Radiological Image
Viewing Tool, M.S., 10/91 - 6/93.
Cem Yüceer, A General Purpose, Rotation, Scaling and Translation
Invariant Pattern Recognition System, 1/90 - 1/92
Ayfl)nSolak, Design and Implementation of a Spelling Checker for
Turkish, 10/89 - 5/91.
D. Ercoflkun, Parallel Implementation of the Backpropagation
Learning Algorithm on a Hypercube Parallel Processor,
10/89 - 12/90.
11.
PATENTS
12. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
12.1. Ph.D. Dissertation
Partitioning in Parallel Processing of Production Systems,
February 1987, Carnegie Mellon University. Advisor: Prof.
H. T. Kung.
12.2. Published Books
12.3. Edited Books, anthologies, bibliographies
Special Issue on Finite State Methods in Natural Language
Processing , Computational Linguistics, Vol 26, No:1,
2000, (jointly with Lauri Karttunen.)
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finite State Methods
in Natural Language Processing, June 1998 (jointly with
Lauri Karttunen.)
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on New Methods
in Language Processing September 1996 (jointly with
Harold Somers.)
Proceedings of the 4th Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks June 1995
(jointly with Halil A. Güvenir, VarolAkman, fiakir
Kocabafl)
Proceedings of the 3rd Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks ,June 1994
(jointly with Cem Bozsahin, UEURur Hal)c))
Proceedings of the 1st Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks June 1992
(jointly with Halil A. Güvenir, VarolAkman, UEURur
Hal)c).)
12.4. Chapters in books or monographs
Morphological Analysis, Invited chapter in Syntactic Wordclass
Tagging Hans van Halteren, Editor, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1999.
Design for a Turkish Treebank, Invited contribution in Treebanks:
Building and exploiting syntactically annotated corpora.,
Anne Abeille, Editor, to appear in 2000 (with Dilek Z.
Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür)
12.5. Reviews
1. Articles in refereed journals
+ Bootstrapping Morphological Analyzers by Combining Human
Elicitation and Machine Learning, Accepted for publication to
Computational Linguistics, 2000, Kemal Oflazer, Sergei Nirenburg,
Marjorie McSchane.
+ Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite State Approach,
Submitted, 2000, Kemal Oflazer.
Tactical Generation in Free Constituent Order Language, Journal
of Natural Language Engineering, 1998, Dilek Z. Hakkani,
Kemal Oflazer.
Error-tolerant Retrieval of Trees, IEEE Transactions for Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 19, No:12 1997
,Kemal Oflazer
Error-tolerant Finite State Recognition with Applications to
Morphological Analysis and Spelling Correction,
Computational Linguistics, Vol. 22, No:1, 1996. Kemal
Oflazer.
Parsing Turkish with the Lexical Functional Grammar Formalism,
Journal of Machine Translation, Vol:10, No:4, 1995. Zelal
Güngördü and Kemal Oflazer.
Two-level Description of Turkish Morphology, Literary and
Linguistic Computing, Vol. 9, No:2, 1994, Kemal Oflazer.
Design and Implementation of a Spelling Checker for Turkish,
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 8, No:3, 1993,
Ayfl)n Solak and Kemal Oflazer.
A Rotation, Scaling and Translation Invariant Pattern
Classification System, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26,
No:5, May 1993, Cem Yüceer and Kemal Oflazer)
Solving Tangram Puzzles: A Connectionist Approach, International
Journal on Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, No:5, June 1993.
Kemal Oflazer.
Highly Parallel Execution of Production Systems: A Model,
Algorithms and Architecture, New Generation Computing,
Vol. 10 No:3 May 1992. Kemal Oflazer.
Design and Implementation of Single-Chip Median Filter, IEEE
Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,
Vol ASSP-31, No:5, Oct. 1983, Kemal Oflazer.
12.7. Articles in non-refereed or general journals
DoEURal Dil (flleme, (Natural Language Processing), Popüler Bilim
(Popular Science), Sept 1997., Kemal Oflazer
Türkçe DoEURal Dil (flleme (Turkish Natural Language Processing),
Byte (Türkiye), Vol. 1 No: 1, Feb, 1994, Kemal Oflazer.
12.8. Other publications, including translations, research notes,
limited-circulation reports.
Issues in Generating Turkish from Interlingua, Technical Report
CMU-LTI-97-152. Carnegie Mellon University, Center for
Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 1997.
Dilek Z. Hakkani, Gökhan Tür, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H.
Nyberg 3rd, and Kemal Oflazer.
A multi-microprocessor architecture for a cellular database
machine - RAP, Technical Report IS - DB 5, Department of
Computer Engineering - Middle East Technical University,
December 1978. Kemal Oflazer and Esen A. Özkarahan.
9. Papers submitted to refereed journals
12.10. Refereed conference proceedings
Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative
Languages, in Proceedings of COLING 2000, Saarbrücken
Germany August, 2000 , Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Kemal
Oflazer, Gökhan Tür
Name Tagging Using Lexical, Contextual and Morphological
Information, In the Proceedings of the Workshop on
Information Extraction Meets Corpus Linguistics at Second
International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC 2000), May 2000, Athens, Greece, Gökhan
Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer,
Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite State Approach, in
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics, June 21-27, College Park,
MD, USA. Kemal Oflazer.
Design for a Turkish Treebank, in Proceedings of the EACL
Workshop on Linguistically Intrepreted Corpora, June 12,
1999, Bergen Norway, Kemal Oflazer, Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür,
Gökhan Tür
Practical Bootstrapping of Morphological Analyzers, in
Proceedings of EACL Workshop on Computational Natural
Language Learning, June 12, 1999, Bergen Norway, Kemal
Oflazer and Sergei Nirenburg.
A Prototype Interlingua-Based MT System from English to Turkish,
in Proceedings of AMTA'98 - Conference of the Association
for Machine Translation in the Americas, Springer Verlag
Lecture Notes on Computer Science, October 28-31, 1998,
Langhorne, PA, USA. Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür,
Kemal Oflazer, Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura.
Implementing Voting Constraints with Finite State Transducers, In
Proceedings of FSMNLP'98 - International Workshop on
Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing,
Ankara, Turkey, June 1998, Kemal Oflazer and Gökhan Tür.
Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints, In Proceedings of
COLING-ACL'98 - International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Montreal, Canada, August 1998, Gökhan Tür
and Kemal Oflazer.
Morphological Disambiguation by Voting Constraints, in
Proceedings of ACL'97 / EACL'97, The 35th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid,
Spain, July, 1997. Kemal Oflazer and Gökhan Tür.
A Constraint-based Case-frame Lexicon, in Proceedings of
COLING'96 - International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1996. Kemal
Oflazer, Okan Y)lmaz.
Error-tolerant Tree Matching, in Proceedings of COLING'96 -
International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1996. Kemal Oflazer.
Tactical Generation in a Free Constituent Order Language, in
Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Natural
Language Generation, Sussex, England, June 1996, Dilek
Hakkani, Kemal Oflazer, and (lyas Çiçekli.
Combining Hand-crafted Rules and Unsupervised Learning in
Constraint-based Morphological Disambiguation, in
Proceedings of the ACL-SIGDAT Conference on Empirical
Methods in Natural Language Processing Philadelphia, PA,
USA, May 1996, Kemal Oflazer, Gökhan Tür
Error Tolerant Finite-state Recognition, in Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'95),
Prague, Czech Republic, September 1995. Kemal Oflazer.
A Constraint-based Case-frame Lexicon Architecture, in
Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on the Computational
Lexicon, Barcelona, Spain, August 1995. Kemal Oflazer and
Okan Y)lmaz.
Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages, in Proceedings of
the 4th ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language
Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, October 1994. Kemal
Oflazer and Cemaleddin Güzey.
Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text, in
Proceedings of the 4th ACL Conference on Applied Natural
Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, October 1994.
Kemal Oflazer and (lker Kuruöz.
Parsing Turkish using the Lexical-Functional Grammar Formalism,
in Proceedings of COLING'94, The 15^th Conference on
Computational Linguistics, Kyoto Japan, August 1994,
Zelal Güngördü and Kemal Oflazer.
A Tool for Tagging Turkish Text, in Proceedings of the Third
Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and
Artificial Neural Networks, Ankara, June 1994. Kemal
Oflazer.
Turkish Natural Language Processing Initiative: An overview, in
Proceedings of the Third Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks, Ankara, June
1994. Kemal Oflazer and Cem Bozflahin.
Using a Corpus to Teach Turkish Morphology, in Proceedings of the
Seventh Twente Workshop on Language Technology,
Entschede, The Netherlands, June 1994, Halil A. Güvenir
and Kemal Oflazer.
A Text Tagger for Turkish, in Proceedings of the Second Turkish
Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Artificial
Neural Networks,(stanbul, June 1993, Kemal Oflazer.
Genetic Synthesis of Unsupervised Learning Algorithms, In
Proceedings of the Second Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks , (stanbul,
June 1993. Ali Dafldan and Kemal Oflazer.
A Lexical Functional Grammar for a Subset of Turkish, In
Proceedings of the Second Turkish Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks , (stanbul,
June 1993, Zelal Güngördü and Kemal Oflazer.
An ATN grammar for a Subset of Turkish, In Proceedings of the
Second Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and
Artificial Neural Networks, (stanbul, June 1993, Coflkun
Demir, and Kemal Oflazer.
Two-level Specification of Turkish Morphology ,in Proceedings of
EACL'93, the Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of
the Association of Computational Linguistics, Utrecht,
the Netherlands, April 1993, Kemal Oflazer.
A Study in Connectionist Modelling of Hard-constraint Problems:
Solving Tangram Puzzles, In Proceddings of ISCIS VII -
The Seventh International Conference on Computer and
Information Sciences, Kemer, Turkey, November 1992, Kemal
Oflazer.
A Connectionist Approach to Solving Tangram Puzzles, in
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS II: Proceedings of the 1992
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks -
ICANN 92, Brighton, England, September 1992. Kemal
Oflazer.
A Rotation, Scaling and Translation Invariant Pattern
Classification System, in Proceedings of the 11^th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, The
Hague, The Netherlands, August 1992. Cem Yüceer and Kemal
Oflazer.
Parsing Agglutinative Word Structures and its Application to
Spelling Checking in Turkish, in Proceedings of
COLING'92, The 14^th Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Nantes, France, July 1992, Ayfl)n Solak and
Kemal Oflazer.
Implementation Details and Performance Evaluation of a Spelling
Checker for Turkish, in Proceedings of Sixth
International Conference on Computer and Information
Sciences, Side, October 1991, A. Solak and K. Oflazer,
A Rotation, Scaling and Translation Invariant Pattern
Classification System, In Proceedings of Sixth
International Conference on Computer and Information
Sciences, Side, October 1991. Cem Yüceer and Kemal
Oflazer
Solving Tangram Puzzles, In Proceedings of Sixth International
Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, Side,
October 1991, Zelal Güngördü and Kemal Oflazer.
Parallel Implementation of the Backpropagation Algorithm on
Hypercube Systems, in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced
Study Institute on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
(Springer Verlag), Ankara, Turkey, July 1991. Cevdet
Aykanat, Kemal Oflazer and Radwan Tahboub.
Experiments with Parallel Backpropagation on a Hypercube Parallel
Processor System, in ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS I:
Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 91, Helsinki, Finland
June 1991. Deniz Ercoflkun and Kemal Oflazer.
Connectionist Modeling of Hyphenation in Turkish, in Proceedings
of Fifth International Symposium on Computer and
Information Sciences, Göreme, October 1990, Kemal
Oflazer.
Experiments with Parallel Sorting on iPSC/2 Multicomputer, In
Proceedings of Fifth International Symposium on Computer
and Information Sciences, Göreme, October 1990, Argun
Dervis, Kemal Oflazer and Fikret Erçal.
A Finite State Machine for Turkish Syllable Structure Analysis,
In Proceedings of Fifth International Symposium on
Computer and Information Sciences, Göreme, October 1990.
Ayfl)n Solak and Kemal Oflazer.
Design and Implementation of a Spelling Checker for Turkish, In
Proceedings of Fifth International Symposium on Computer
and Information Sciences, Göreme, October 1990. Ayfl)n
Solak and Kemal Oflazer.
Implementation of Backpropagation Learning Algorithm on a
Hypercube Parallel Processor, in Proceedings of Fifth
International Symposium on Computer and Information
Sciences, Göreme, October 1990, Kemal Oflazer and Deniz
Ercoflkun.
Partitioning in parallel processing of production systems, in
Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel
Processing, IEEE Computer Society and ACM, August 1984,
Michigan. Kemal Oflazer.
A reconfigurable VLSI architecture for a database processor, in
Proceedings of National Computer Conference, Anaheim,
California, May 1983, Kemal Oflazer.
MISE: Machine for In-System Evaluation of custom VLSI Chips for
Real-time systems, In Proceedings of the Real-Time
Systems Symposium, December, 1982, Roberto Bisiani,
Michael J. Foster, H.T. Kung and Kemal Oflazer.
RAP.3 - A multi-microprocessor cell architecture for the RAP
database machine, In Proceedings of the International
Workshop on High-Level Language Computer Architecture,
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May 1980, Kemal Oflazer, Esen A.
Özkarahan, Kenneth C. Smith.
Microprocessor based modular database processors, In Proceedings
of Fourth International Conference on Very Large
Databases Berlin, Germany, 1978, Esen A. Özkarahan and
Kemal Oflazer.
12.11. Published conference abstracts
12.12. Non-refereed conference proceedings
A Root Driven Parser for Spelling Checking in Turkish, In
Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Turkish
Linguistics, Eskisehir, August 1992, Ayfl)n Solak and
Kemal Oflazer.
Bilgisayar Ortam)nda Haz)rlanm)fl Türkçe Metinlerde Yanl)fl
Sözcüklerin Bulunmas), In Proceedings of 8. Turkish
Computer Congress, Istanbul, May 1991, Ayfl)n Solak,
Kemal Oflazer.
Highly Parallel Execution of Production Systems: A Model,
Algorithms and Architecture, Invited paper in Proceedings
of METU Regional Seminar on Expert Systems and their
Microcomputer Applications, Ankara, May 1991, Kemal
Oflazer.
Document Management: Issues and Experiences, Invited Paper in
Proceedings of Fourth International Symposium on Computer
and Information Sciences, Çesme, (zmir, October 1989,
Kemal Oflazer.
12.13. M. Sc. Thesis
A Microprocessor Based Approach to RAP Database Machine Cell
Structure - Design and Analysis, Department of Computer
Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey, 1979. Advisor: Esen A. Özkarahan.
13.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CITATIONS TO PUBLICATIONS IN [12] : 213
Citations by others : 188
Self Citations : 25
14.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Constraint-based tagging and learning constraints from corpora.
Statistical Modeling of Agglutinative Languages
Using finite state techniques for natural language processing.
2. GRANTS
Developing Language Engineering Resources for Low-Density
Languages, NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant, Co-Principal
Investigator (along with Prof. Sergei Nirenburg of NMSU
and Prof. Oleg Kapanadze of Tbilisi State University,
Georgia), BF 231.000. (1999-2000)
Unified Electronic Lexicon of Turkish, TÜB(TAK and US NSF Joint
Grant (Travel support) , Co-Principal Investigator (along
with Prof. Sharon Inkelas of UC Berkeley), 2000 - 2004
Design and implementation of a finite state light parser for
Turkish, TÜB(TAK- Turkish NSF, Principal Investigator,
2000 - 2002.
Development of a Turkish Treebank Database ", TÜB(TAK- Turkish
NSF, Awarded Fall 1999, Co-Principal Investigator, (with
Bilge Say of Information Institute, METU), 2000 - 2003.
Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages, NATO Grant to
organize a NATO Advanced Study Institute at Bilkent
University, Summer 2000 (jointly with Prof. Sergei
Nirenburg of NMSU and Prof. Oleg Kapanadze of Tbilisi
State University, Georgia), Awarded December 1999, BF
1,575,000.
Development and licensing of Turkish Morphological Analyzer for
IBM Corporation (1996), US$ 50,000.
TU-LANGUAGE: Establishing Computational Foundations and
Applications for Natural Language Processing In Turkish
(1994-1999) NATO Science for Stability Programme,
(Project Director and Principal Investigator) ~ US$
620,000 (Hardware, Software, Travel) (Details at
http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/Turklang)
16.
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Member of the department curriculum committee.
17. CONTRIBUTION TO BILKENT UNIVERSITY
Establishment of Center for Turkish Language and Speech
Processing,
Establishment of the Natural Language Processing Computer
Laboratory,
Set up and maintenance of the Computer Engineering and
Information Science Dept. Computing Environment.
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