Research Areas: Natural Language Understanding, Dialog Modeling, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Speech Recognition.
Dr. Sarikaya is serving as the general co-chair of IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop for 2012 (www.slt2012.org).
- Anoop Deoras and Ruhi Sarikaya, Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding, in ISCA Interspeech, ISCA, September 2013
- Aditya Bhargava, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Ruhi Sarikaya, Easy Contextual Intent Prediction and Slot Detection, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2013
- Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Joint Discriminative Decoding of Word and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, 2013
- Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, and Ruhi Sarikaya, Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
- Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), September 2012
Dr. Ruhi Sarikaya joined Microsoft as a manager and principal scientist in late 2011. He is leading a team of scientists focusing on language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and machine translation. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a research staff member and team lead in the Human Language Technologies Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center for 10 years. He received the B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Turkey in 1995, M.S. degree from Clemson University, SC in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree from Duke University, NC in 2001 all in electrical and computer engineering. He has published about 70 technical papers in refereed journal and conference proceedings and, is the inventor of 20+ patents in the area of speech and natural language processing. At IBM he has received several prestigious awards for his work including two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards (2005 and 2008) and two Research Division Awards (2005 and 2007). Prior to joining IBM in 2001 he was a researcher at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years. He also spent the summer of 1999 at the Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA. He has served as the publicity chair of IEEE ASRU’05 and gave a tutorial on “Processing Morphologically Rich Languages” at Interspeech’07. Dr. Sarikaya is currently serving as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He also served as the lead guest editor of the special issue on “Processing Morphologically-Rich Languages” for IEEE Trans. on Audio Speech & Language Processing.
His past and present research interests span all aspects of speech and language processing including natural language understanding, dialog modeling, speech recognition, machine translation, machine learning, speech-to-speech translation, speaker identification/verification, digital signal processing and statistical modeling.
Dr. Sarikaya is a member of IEEE (senior member), ACL and ISCA.
- Anoop Deoras and Ruhi Sarikaya, Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding, in ISCA Interspeech, ISCA, September 2013
- Aditya Bhargava, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Ruhi Sarikaya, Easy Contextual Intent Prediction and Slot Detection, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2013
- Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Joint Discriminative Decoding of Word and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, 2013
- Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, and Ruhi Sarikaya, Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
- Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), September 2012
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