Kemal Oflazer
E-mail : kemal.oflazer
sabanciuniv.edu
Education :
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), 1978; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, METU, 1979; Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), 1987.
Work Experience :
Formative Technologies (USA), 1986-1989; Bilkent University, 1989-2000; New Mexico State Universitesi (USA), 1998-1999, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2007
Areas of Interest :
Natural language processing; speech processing.Publications :
| Article |
| Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur and Oflazer, Kemal (2010) "Exploiting morphology and local word reordering in English-to-Turkish phrase-based statistical machine translation", IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Vol.18, No.6, 1313-1322 (SCI) |
| Eryiğit, Gülşen and Nivre, Joakim and Oflazer, Kemal (2008) "Dependency parsing of Turkish", Computational Linguistics, Vol.34, No.3, 357-389 (SCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Erbaş, Mehmet Dinçer and Erdoğmuş, Müge (2006) "Using finite state technology in a tool for linguistic exploration", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4002, 191-202 (SCI) |
| Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Oflazer, Kemal and Adalı, Eşref (2006) "Lexical ambiguity resolution for Turkish in direct transfer machine translation models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4263, 230-238 (SCI) |
| Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Adalı, Eşref and Oflazer, Kemal (2006) "Computer analysis of the Turkmen language morphology", Advances in natural language processing, proceedings (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), Vol.4139, 186-193 (SCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Inkelas, Sharon (2006) "The architecture and the implementation of a finite state pronunciation lexicon for Turkish", Computer Speech & Language, Vol.20, No.1, 80-106 (SCI) |
| Külekçi, M. Oğuzhan and Oflazer, Kemal (2005) "Pronunciation disambiguation in Turkish", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3733, 636-645 (SCI) |
| Bilgin, Orhan and Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Oflazer, Kemal (2004) "Building a wordnet for Turkish", Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Vol.7, No.1-2, 163-172 (NA) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Bilgin, Orhan and Say, Bilge (2004) "A preprocessor for Turkish text analysis", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3280, 761-770 (SCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Dönmez, Meryem Pınar (2004) "SmartReader: an NLP-based interactive reading application for language learning", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3280, 751-760 (SCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Yılmaz, Yasin (2004) "Developing finite state NLP systems with a graphical environment", Lecture notes on computer science, Vol.3280, 147-156 (SCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal (2003) "Dependency parsing with an extended finite-state approach", Computational Linguistics, Vol.29, No.4, 515-544 (AHCI, SCI, SSCI) |
| Oflazer, Kemal (2003) "Lenient morphological analysis", Natural Language Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, 87-99 (NA) |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Nirenburg, Sergei and McShane, Marjorie (2001) "Bootstrapping morphological analyzers by combining human elicitation and machine learning", Computational Linguistics, Vol.27, No.1, 59-85 (SCI) |
| Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Adalı, Eşref and Oflazer, Kemal, "A MT System from Turkmen to Turkish employing finite state and statistical methods", XI. Machine Translation Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark: European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), September 2007, 459-465 |
| Oflazer, Kemal and Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur, "Exploring different representational units in English-to-Turkish statistical machine translation", Statistical Machine Translation Workshop at ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2007 |
| Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Adalı, Eşref and Oflazer, Kemal, "Machine translation between Turkic languages", 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2007 |
| Eryiğit, Gülşen and Nivre, Joakim and Oflazer, Kemal, "The incremental use of morphological information and lexicalization in data-driven dependency parsing", 21st International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, [Berlin]: Springer, December 2006, 498-508 |
| Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Oflazer, Kemal, "Morphology-Syntax interface for Turkish LFG", International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Annual Meeting of the Association,, July 2006, 153-160 |
| Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Oflazer, Kemal, "Altsözcüksel birimlerle Türkçe için sözcüksel işlevsel gramer geliştirilmesi", Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks,, June 2006 |
| Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur and Oflazer, Kemal, "Türkçe-İngilizce için istatistiksel bilgisayarlı çeviri sistemi", TAINN 2006 Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks,, June 2006, 125-132 |
| Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur and Oflazer, Kemal, "Initial explorations in English to Turkish statistical machine translation", North American ACL - Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,, June 2006, 7-14 |
| Eryiğit, Gülşen and Oflazer, Kemal and Adalı, Eşref, "Türkçe cümlelerin kural tabanlı bağlılık analizi", TAINN 2006 Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks,, June 2006, 17-24 |
| Külekçi, M. Oğuzhan and Oflazer, Kemal, "An infrastructure for Turkish prosody generation in text-to-speech synthesis", TAINN 2006 Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks,, June 2006 |
| Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Oflazer, Kemal and Adalı, Eşref, "A prototype machine translation system between Turkmen and Turkish", TAINN 2006 Fifteenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks,, June 2006, 109-116 |
| Eryiğit, Gülşen and Oflazer, Kemal, "Statistical dependency parsing of Turkish", The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,,, April 2006, 89-96 |
| Oflazer, Kemal, "Integrating morphology with multi-word expression processing in Turkish", Tanaka, Takaaki and Villavicencio, Aline and Bond, Francis and Korhonen, Anna (eds.), ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions:Integrating Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2005, 64-71 |
| Vural, Esra and Erdoğan, Hakan and Oflazer, Kemal and Yanıkoğlu, Berrin, "An online handwriting recognition system for Turkish", Smith, Elisa H. Barney and Taghva, Kazem (eds.), Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval XII, Bellingham, WA, USA: SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers), January 2005, 56-65 |
| Vural, Esra and Erdoğan, Hakan and Oflazer, Kemal and Yanıkoğlu, Berrin, "Türkçe için tablet PC ortamında çevrimiçi yazı tanıma", SIU 2004, IEEE, May 2004, 607-610 |
| Vural, Esra and Erdoğan, Hakan and Oflazer, Kemal and Yanıkoğlu, Berrin, "Türkçe için tablet PC ortamında çevrimiçi yazı tanıma sistemi = An online handwriting recognition system for Turkish", IEEE 12th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, 2004, USA: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 2004, 607-610 |
| Volumes Edited / Special Issues |
| Oflazer, Kemal, Machine translation journal - special issue on finite-string language resources and language processing, Kluwer/Springer, January 2005 |