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I am a faculty member with the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University (view from Google Maps) in Istanbul, Turkey . I am associated with the Computer Science Program. Here is a recent CV.

Education

Teaching

Research

I am mainly interested in Natural Language Processing with specific applications to Turkish. These days I am working on statistical machine translation between English and Turkish and developing NLP-based application for language learning. See the web page of Human Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at Sabanci University for more information. Also check out the BalkaNet Dictionary based on the WordNets for Balkan languages developed in the Balkanet Project. The BalkaNet Dictionary will translate to/from Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian and English; coverage may vary.


Selected Recent Publications (Full List of Publications)

  1. Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre and Kemal Oflazer, Dependency Parsing of Turkish, Computational Linguistics, Vol:34 No:3, September 2008.

  2. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Kemal Oflazer, İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, BLEU+: A Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation, in Proceedings of LREC, Morrocco, May 2008.

  3. Kemal Oflazer, Statistical Machine Translation into a Morphologically Complex Language, Invited Paper, In Proceedings of CICLING 2008 -- Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Haifa, Israel, February 2008,

  4. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı and Kemal Oflazer, A MT System from Turkmen to Turkish Employing Finite State and Statistical Methods, in Proceedings of MT Summit XI, 2007.

  5. Kemal Oflazer and İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Exploring Different Representational Units in English-to-Turkish Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of Statistical Machine Translation Workshop at ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.

  6. Cüneyd Tantuğ, Eşref Adalı and Kemal Oflazer, Machine Translation between Turkic Languages, in Proceedings of ACL 2007 – Companion Volume, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007

  7. Gülşen Eryiğit, Joakim Nivre and Kemal Oflazer, The Incremental Use of Morphological Information and Lexicalization in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing, in Proceedings of ICCPOL 2006, The 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, December 2006, Singapore,

  8. Özlem Çetinoğlu and Kemal Oflazer, Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG, in Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

  9. Gülşen Eryiğit and Kemal Oflazer, Statistical Dependency Parsing for Turkish, in Proceedings of EACL 2006 - The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2006, Trento, Italy

  10. Kemal Oflazer and Sharon Inkelas, The Architecture and the Implementation of a Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish, Computer Speech and Language, Vol:20 No:1, 2006.

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Contact Info

Address:
Kemal Oflazer 
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Sabanci University
Orhanli, 34956, Tuzla, Istanbul
TURKEY

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Office: FENS 2054
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9532
Secr: +90 (216) 483 9500
Fax: +90 (216) 483 9550
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Last Updated: June 30, 2008

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