News

• Chapter on Spoken Language Understanding in Computer Science Handbook, 3rd Edition, Allen B. Tucker (Editor), Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, to appear in 2013
• Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Resources, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 3, May 2013.
• Edited a book on Spoken Language Understanding with Renato De Mori: Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech, John Wiley and Sons, Gokhan Tur and Renato De Mori editors, 2011.

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Brief Bio

Gokhan Tur received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2000. Between 1997 and 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Machine Translation (now LTI) 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, NJ from 2001 to 2006 and at the Speech Technology and Research Lab of SRI International, CA from 2006 to 2010. He is currently with Microsoft Research, Conversational Systems Research Center.

His research interests include spoken language understanding (SLU), speech and language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval and extraction. He co-authored more than 100 papers published in refereed journals or books and presented at international conferences. He is the editor of the book entitled "Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech" by Wiley in 2011. Dr. Tur is also the recipient of the Elsevier 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 Elsevier Speech Communication Journal Special Issue on SLU in 2006. He is also the spoken language processing area chair for IEEE ICASSP 2007, 2008, and 2009 conferences, spoken dialog area chair for HLT-NAACL 2007 conference, finance chair for IEEE/ACL SLT 2006 and IEEE SLT 2010 workshops, and SLU area chair for IEEE ASRU 2005 workshop.

Dr. Tur is a senior member of IEEE, ACL, and ISCA, was a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) for 2006-2008, and is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing journal and member of the IEEE SPS Industrial Relations Committee.

Research Interests

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

Work Experience

• September 2012 - present: Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA
  Conversational Systems Research Center.
  Senior Researcher
• June 2010 - August 2012: Microsoft, Mountain View, CA
  Conversational Systems Lab
  Principal Scientist
• December 2005 - June 2010: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
  Speech Technology and Research Lab
  Researcher
• February 2001 - December 2005: AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ
  Voice Enabled Services Research Lab
  Senior Technical Staff Member
  Senior Technical Specialist
• 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

All Publications

• Books

  • Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech, John Wiley and Sons, Gokhan Tur and Renato De Mori editors, 2011.

• Theses

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

  • Xiao Li, Gokhan Tur, Spoken Query Understanding, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Spoken Language Understanding. At ICASSP'07, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu HI, April 2007.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Joint Discriminative Decoding of Words and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding, To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
  • Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Resources, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 3, May 2013.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 4, August 2011.
  • Feifan Liu, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Hong Yu, Towards spoken clinical-question answering: Evaluating and adapting automatic speech-recognition systems for spoken clinical questions. In the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 625-630, June 2011.
  • Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernandez, Matthew Frampton, Michael Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang, The CALO Meeting Assistant System. In the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 1601-1611, August 2010
  • Umit Guz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Sebastien Cuendet, Cascaded Model Adaptation for Dialog Act Segmentation and Tagging. In the Journal of Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 289-306, April 2010.
  • Umit Guz, Sebastien Cuendet, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Multi-View Semi-Supervised Learning for Dialog Act Segmentation of Speech. In the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 320-329, February 2010.
  • Michael Levit, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Dan Gillick, IXIR: A Statistical Information Distillation System. In the Journal of Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 527-542, October 2009.
  • Umit Guz, Benoit Favre, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Generative and Discriminative Methods using Morphological Information for Sentence Segmentation of Turkish, In the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Special Issue on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages, Vol.17, No. 5, pp. 895-903, July 2009.
  • Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Bootstrapping Spoken Dialogue Systems by Exploiting Reusable Libraries. In the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 313-335, July 2008.
  • Renato De Mori, Frederic Bechet, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Michael McTear, Giuseppe Riccardi, Gokhan Tur, Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems. In the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Spoken Language Technologies, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 50-58, May 2008.
  • 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.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tr, 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.
  • Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Hakkani-Tr, 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.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Frederic Bechet, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Gokhan Tur, Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages. In the Journal of Computers and Humanities, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 381-410, November, 2002.
  • 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, pp. 31-57, March, 2001.
  • 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, pp. 127-154, September, 2000.
  • 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 Snmez, Andreas Stolcke, Gokhan Tur, MAESTRO: Conductor of Multimedia Analysis Technologies. In the Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 57-63, February, 2000.

• Book Chapters

  • Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Understanding Spoken Language, Chapter in Computer Science Handbook, 3rd Edition, Allen B. Tucker (Editor), Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2013.
  • Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Intent Determination and Spoken Utterance, Chapter in "Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech", Tur and De Mori (Eds.), John Wiley and Sons, 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Human/Human Conversation Understanding, Chapter in "Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech", Tur and De Mori (Eds.), John Wiley and Sons, 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Michael Levit, Dan Gillick, Adish Singla, Sibel Yaman, Statistical Sentence Extraction for Multilingual Information Distillation, Chapter in the "Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) Program", Olive, McCary, Dietrich, Christianson (Eds.), Springer, 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Benoit Favre, Elizabeth Shriberg, Finding the Structure of Documents, Chapter in "Multilingual Natural Language Applications: From Theory to Practice", Bikel and Zitouni (Eds.), Prentice-Hall, 2012.
  • 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", Strandburg and Raicu (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005.
  • Yucel Saygin, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories, Chapter in "Web and Information Security", Ferrari and Thuraisingham (Eds.), IRM Press, 2005.
  • Kemal Oflazer, Bilge Say, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Building a Turkish Treebank, Chapter in "Building and Using Parsed Corpora", Abeill (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
  • 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, Farwell, Gerber, and Hovy (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998.

• Conferences

  • Gokhan Tur, Anoop Deoras, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Semantic Parsing Using Word Confusion Networks With Conditional Random Fields, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France, August, 2013.
  • Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Web-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Parsing, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France, August, 2013.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Discovering New User Intents from Search, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France, August, 2013.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz,, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, IsNL? A Discriminative Approach to Detect Natural Language Like Queries for Conversational Understanding, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2013, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France, August, 2013.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression, In the Proceedings of the ACL 2013, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
  • Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Latent Semantic Modeling for Slot Filling in Conversational Understanding, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2013, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Using a Knowledge Graph and Query Click Logs for Unsupervised Learning of Relation Detection, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2013, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
  • Dong Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Understanding Computer-Directed Utterances in Multi-User Dialog Systems, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2013, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
  • Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Multi-Style Adaptive Training for Robust Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2013, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
  • Li Deng, Gokhan Tur, Xiaodong He, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Use of Kernel Deep Convex Networks and End-To-End Learning for Spoken Language Understanding, In the Proceedings of the SLT 2012, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Miami, FL,  December 2012
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Gokhan Tur, Statistical Semantic Interpretation Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding with Enriched Semantic Features, In the Proceedings of the SLT 2012, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Miami, FL, December 2012
  • Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2012, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, OR, September, 2012.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz, A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2012, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, OR, September, 2012.
  • Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech 2012, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Portland, OR, September, 2012.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding. In the Proceedings of the North Ameircan Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL-2012: Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data. Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
  • Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He, Towards Deeper Understanding: Deep Convex Networks for Semantic Utterance Classification, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2012, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Rukmini Iyer, Larry Heck, Translating Natural Language Utterances to Search Queries for SLU Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs, In the Proceedings of the ICASSP 2012, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Hillard, Rukmini Iyer, S. Parthasarathy. Employing Web Search Query Click Logs for Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding. In the Proceedings of the ASRU-2011, 12th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Waikoloa, HI, December, 2011.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Hillard. Exploiting Distance Based Similarity in Topic Models for User Intent Detection. In the Proceedings of the ASRU-2011, 12th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Waikoloa, HI, December, 2011.
  • Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Towards Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding: Exploiting Query Click Logs for Slot Filling. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Elizabeth Shriberg, Bootstrapping Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs for New Domains. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Gokhan Tur, Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Language Understanding with Shared Slots, In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Learning Weighted Entity Lists from Web Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding with Approximate Inference. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'11, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, August, 2011.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Leveraging Web Query Logs to Learn User Intent Via Bayesian Latent Variable Model. ICML 2011 - Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost. Bellevue, WA. July, 2011.
  • Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, S. Parthasarathy, Sentence Simplification for Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of ICASSP 2011, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Exploiting Web Search Query Click Logs for Utterance Domain Detection in Spoken Language Understanding. In the proceedings of ICASSP 2011, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
  • Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, What's Left to Be Understood in ATIS? In the proceedings of SLT-2010, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Berkeley, CA, December 2010.
  • Michelle Hewlett Sanchez, Gokhan Tur, Luciana Ferrer, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Domain Adaptation and Compensation for Emotion Detection. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'10, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Makuhari, Japan, September, 2010.
  • Sibel Yaman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Social Role Discovery from Spoken Language using Dynamic Bayesian Networks. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'10, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Makuhari, Japan, September, 2010.
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Dimitra Vergyri, Gokhan Tur, Speech-Based Automated Cognitive Status Assessment. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'10, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Makuhari, Japan, September, 2010.
  • Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, LDA Based Similarity Modeling for Question Answering, In the proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 2010.
  • Wen Wang, Gokhan Tur, Jing Zheng, Necip Fazil Ayan, Automatic Disfluency Removal for Improving Spoken Language Translation, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2010, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, TX, March 2010.
  • Dmitri Kalashnikov, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Sharad Mehrotra, Speech-Based Situational Awareness for Crisis Response. In the Proceedings of the EMWS'09, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Workshop on Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management, Irvine, CA, November 2009.
  • Sibel Yaman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Combining Semantic and Syntactic Information Sources for 5-W Question Answering. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'09, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brighton, UK, September, 2009.
  • Sibel Yaman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ralph Grishman, Mary Harper, Kathleen R. McKeown, Adam Meyers, Kartavya Sharma, Classification-Based Strategies for Combining Multiple 5-W Question Answering Systems. In the Proceedings of the Interspeech'09, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brighton, UK, September, 2009.
  • Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Robert Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu, Sibel Yaman, Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task, In the proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
  • Sibel Yaman, Gokhan Tur, Dimitra Vergyri, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Wen Wang, Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering, In the proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2009, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) Conference, Boulder, CO, June 2009.
  • Gokhan Tur, Co-Adaptation: Adaptive Co-Training for Semi-Supervised Learning, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
  • Dimitra Vergyri, Andreas Stolcke, Gokhan Tur, Exploiting User Feedback for Language Model Adaptation in Meeting Recognition, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
  • Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernandez, Matthew Frampton, Michael Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Stanley Peters, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang, The CALO Meeting Speech Recognition and Understanding System, In the proceedings of SLT-2008, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, India, December 2008.
  • Arindam Mandal, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Andreas Stolcke, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Necip Fazil Ayan, Efficient Data Selection for Machine Translation, In the proceedings of SLT-2008, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, India, December 2008.
  • Greg Myers, Gokhan Tur, Lynn Voss, Bob Bolles, Sachin Kajarekar, Elizabeth Shriberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Multimedia Information Extraction Roadmap, In the proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Multimedia Information Extraction, Arlington, VA, November 2008.
  • Fan Yang, Gokhan Tur, Elizabeth Shriberg, Exploiting Dialog Act Tagging and Prosodic Information for Action Item Identification, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
  • Andreas Kathol, Gokhan Tur, Extracting Question/Answer Pairs in Multi-Party Meetings, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
  • Kamand Kamangar, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Michael Levit, An Iterative Unsupervised Learning Method for Information Distillation, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
  • Svetlana Stoyanchev, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Name-Aware Speech Recognition for Interactive Question Answering, In the proceedings of ICASSP-2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
  • 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.
  • Umit Guz, Sebastien 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sebastien 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, Saarbrcken, Germany, August, 2000.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ze'ev Rivlin, Kemal Snmez, Combining Words and Speech Prosody for Automatic Topic Segmentation. In the proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Herndon, VA, 1999.
  • Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rebecca Bates, Mari Ostendorf, Dilek Hakkani, Madelaine Plauch, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Gokhan Tur, Automatic Authorship Detection, 2000.

Patents

• U.S. Patent #7,742,911, Apparatus and method for spoken language understanding by using semantic role labeling, 2010.
• U.S. Patent #7,664,644, Multitask learning for spoken language understanding, 2010.
• U.S. Patent #7,562,014, Active learning process for spoken dialog systems, 2009.
• U.S. Patent #7,412,383, Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application, 2008.
• U.S. Patent #7,295,981, Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system, 2007.
• U.S. Patent #7,292,982, Active labeling for spoken language understanding, 2007.
• U.S. Patent #7,292,976, Active learning process for spoken dialog systems, 2007.
• U.S. Patent #7,263,486, Active learning for spoken language understanding, 2007.

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, Industrial Relations Committee, Member, 2012-2015.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Technical Committee, Member, 2006-2008.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Technical Committee Newsletter, Editor, 2006.
• NSF Panelist, Human Language Technologies Area, 2008.

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Associate Editor, 2009-2012.
• Speech Communication Journal, Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, Guest Editor, 2006.
• 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.
• Artificial Intelligence Journal, Reviewer.
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Reviewer.
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Reviewer.
• Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Reviewer.
• Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems, Reviewer.
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Reviewer

Conference Organization

• SLT 2012, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Advisory Board Member, Miami Beach, FL, December 2012.
• Interspeech 2012 ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Spoken Language Understanding Session Chair, Portland, OR, September 2012.
• Interspeech 2011 ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Special Session on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies and Health Applications Organizer, Florence, Italy, August 2011.
• SLT 2010, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Finance Chair, Berkeley, CA, December 2010.
• NAACL-HLT 2010, Tutorial Chair, Los Angeles, CA, June 2010.
• NAACL-HLT 2009, Publicity Chair, Boulder, CO, May-June 2009.
• ICASSP 2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing Area Chair, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• ICASSP 2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Panel on Human/Human and Human/Machine Conversational Interaction, Organizer, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• ICASSP 2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Thematic Symposium on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Organizer, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• ICASSP 2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing Area Chair, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
• ICASSP 2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Spoken Language Understanding Session Chair, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
• 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.
• 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.
• Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding at AAAI 2005, The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Organizer, Pittsburgh, PA, July 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.
• 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.
• Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems at HLT-NAACL 2004, Organizer, Boston, MA, May 2004.
• Special Session on Call Classification and Routing, at ICSLP 2002, Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Organizer, Denver, CO, September 2002.

Conference Review

• Interspeech 2013, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Reviewer, Lyon, France, August 2013.
• SIGdial 2013, The 14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Program Committee Member, Metz, France, August 2013.
• ACL 2013, The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
• ICASSP 2013, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
• SLT 2012, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Reviewer, Miami Beach, FL, December 2012.
• Interspeech 2012, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Reviewer, Portland, OR, September 2012.
• EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Reviewer, Jeju, Korea, July 2012.
• SIGdial 2012, The 13th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Program Committee Member, Seoul, South Korea, July 2012.
• ICASSP 2012, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
• NAACL-HLT 2012, The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies conference, Reviewer, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
• ASRU 2011, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scientific Committee Member, Waikoloa, HI, December 2011.
• EMNLP 2011, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Reviewer, Edinburgh, UK, October 2011.
• Interspeech 2011, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Reviewer, Florence, Italy, August 2011.
• SIGDial 2011, Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Reviewer, Portland, OR, June 2011.
• ICASSP 2011, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
• SLT 2010, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Reviewer, Berkeley, CA, December 2010.
• EMNLP 2010, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Reviewer, Cambridge, MA, October 2010.
• Interspeech 2010, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Reviewer, Makuhari, Japan, September 2010.
• COLING 2010, The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Beijing, China, August 2010.
• ACL 2010, The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.
• AAAI 2010, The 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Reviewer, Atlanta, GA, July 2010.
• LREC 2010, The 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Reviewer, Malta, May 2010.
• ICASSP 2010, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Dallas, TX, March 2010.
• ASRU 2009, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scientific Committee Member, Merano, Italy, December 2009.
• Interspeech 2009, 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Reviewer, Brighton, UK, September 2009.
• ISCIS 2009, The 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Reviewer, Ankara, Turkey, September 2009.
• ACL-IJCNLP 2009 The 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009.
• ICASSP 2009, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• EACL 2009 The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Athens, Greece, March-April 2009.
• SLT 2008, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Reviewer, Goa, India, December 2008.
• EMNLP 2008, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Reviewer, Honolulu, HI, October, 2008.
• Interspeech 2008, ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Reviewer, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
• IEEE SCSC 2008, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Conference, Reviewer, Santa Clara, CA, August 2008.
• ACL 2008, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Reviewer, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
• ACL 2008 Mobile Language Processing Workshop, Reviewer, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
• ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop, Reviewer, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
• ICASSP 2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Las Vegas, NV, April 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, Reviewer, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
• ACL 2007, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reviewer, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
• ICASSP 2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
• 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.
• ICASSP 2006, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Toulouse, France, May, 2006
• 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.
• ICASSP 2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Associate Reviewer, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
• 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 Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Reviewer, Antalya, Turkey, 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.
• 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.

Other

• Israel Science Foundation, Grant Proposal Reviewer, 2005.
• New York Academy of Sciences, Science and Engineering Fair, New York City, NY, 2003, Judge.

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 Michelle Hewlett Sanchez from Stanford University during her fellowship studies at SRI International, 2009.
• Mentored Fan Yang from Oregon Graduate Institute during his internship at SRI International, 2007.
• Mentored Umit Guz from Isik University from July to December 2006.
• Mentored Svetlana Stenchikova from State University of New York at Stony Brook during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2005.
• Mentored Ananlada Chotimongkol from Carnegie Mellon University during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.
• Mentored Lingyun Zhang from University of California at San Diego during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.
• Mentored Min Tang from University of Colorado during his summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2004.
• Mentored Mercan Karahan from Purdue University during her summer internship at AT&T Labs - Research, 2003.
• September 2000 - February 2001: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Department of Computer Engineering, Instructor

Personal Information

• Languages: Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (beginner)
• Date of Birth: November 30, 1972
• Married with one daughter.

Contact

Microsoft Research

Mountain View, CA 94043         

Microsoft Silicon Valley

gokhan.tur@ieee.org

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