Ayşenur Akyüz
Birtürk
Contact
Information. 1
Scientific
Interest Areas. 1
Education. 1
Experience. 2
Courses
Taught 2
Theses
Supervised. 3
Publications. 4
Honors
and Awards. 10
Seminars. 10
Projects. 10
Memberships. 10
Useful Links. 11
Other. 11
Scientific Interest Areas
Artificial Intelligence, Natural
Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Engineering,
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Data Mining, Expert Systems, Web
Personalization, Recommender Systems.
Education
Basic Education:
Bahçelievler
Deneme Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey, June 1980.
Bachelor of Science:
Dept. of Computer
Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 1985.
Master of Science:
Dept. of Computer Engineering,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, May 1988.
Thesis: A Model for Representing
Concepts: Conceptual Dependency Theory.
Supervisor: Dr.Müren Gökeri.
Doctor of Philosophy:
Dept. of Computer Engineering,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, January 1998.
Thesis: A Computational Analysis
of Turkish using the Government-Binding Approach.
Supervisor: Dr.Cem Bozşahin.
Experience
Programmer and Systems Expert: (September'85-September'89)
IsBank Computer Center, Ankara,
Turkey.
Projects worked on this position
include:
- systems
analysis and development of programs for several banking applications on
the environments SPERRY1100/EXEC/DBMS and IBM3090/MVS/IMS.
- design
and development of a Management Information System(MIS) for the bank.
- relational
database design and tool testing.
- development
of an expert system for the financial analysis of firms using the expert
system shell TI PC++.
Research/Teaching Assistant:
(September'89-February'94)
Middle East Technical University,
Dept. of Computer Engineering, Turkey.
Instructor: (February'94- now)
Middle East Technical University,
Dept. of Computer Engineering, Turkey.
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Ceng 463 Introduction to Natural Language
Processing
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Ceng 414 Introduction to Data Mining
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Ceng 111 Introduction to Computer Engineering
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Ceng 301 Programming in COBOL
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Ceng 112/220/221Programming in Pascal
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Ceng 200/210 Programming in Fortran
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Ceng 230 C Programming
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Ceng 301 Algorithms and Data Structures
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Ceng 491-492 Senior Seminar and Project I&II
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Ceng 223 Discrete Computational Structures
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Ceng 280 Formal Languages and Abstract Machines
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Ceng 356 Lisp and Prolog
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Ceng 424 Logic for Computer Science
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Ceng 463 Introduction to Natural Language
Processing
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Ceng 462 Artificial Intelligence
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Ceng 561 Artificial Intelligence
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Ceng 563 Computational Linguistics
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Ceng 565 Theory of Computation
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Ceng 568 Knowledge Engineering
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Ceng 770 Advanced Data Mining
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IDEA- C ile Bilgisayar
Programcılığına Giriş
Summer Research Assistant: (June'96 - Nov'96
and June'97 - August'97)
NEC
Research Institute, Inc., Computer Science Division, Princeton, NJ, USA;
worked with Dr.Sandiway Fong on PAPPI project, and
developed a GB parser for Turkish.
Academic Intern: (July'98 - August'98)
NEC Research Institute, Inc.,
Computer Science Division, Princeton, NJ, USA;
worked on a
finite state machine solution to Turkish compounds.
Theses Supervised
- Caglar
Iskender, A Method for Estimation of Empty Categories and its Application
to Turkish, M.S.Thesis, December 2002.
- Ozgen
Canan, Generating Motion-Economical Plans for Manual Operations, Ms.
Thesis, September 2005.
- Oznur
Kirmemis, OpenMoRe: A Content-based Movie Recommendation System, M.S.Thesis,
May 2008.
- Fatih
Mehmet Guler, Natural
Intelligence – A Question Answering System, M.S. without
Thesis Graduation Project, January 2010.
- Omer
Sunercan, Missing Link
Discovery in Wikipedia: A Comparative Study, M.S.Thesis, January
2010.
- Mustafa
Azak, CROSSING: A Framework to Develop Knowledge-based Recommenders in
Cross Domains, M.S.Thesis, February 2010.
- Fatih
Gurcan, A Hybrid Movie
Recommender Using Dynamic Fuzzy Clustering, M.S.Thesis, February
2010.
- Akif
Boynuegri, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval on Turkish and English
Texts, M.S. Thesis,
April 2010.
- Seda
Cakiroglu, Suggest me a Movie: A Multi-Client Movie Recommendation Engine
on Facebook, M.S. Thesis, June 2010.
- Fatih
Aksel, Enhancing Accuracy of
Hybrid Recommender Systems through Adapting the Domain Trends, M.S.
Thesis, August 2010.
- Yusuf
Karagol, Event Recognition in
Turkish Texts, M.S. Thesis, September 2010.
- Ipek
Tatli, A Tag-based Hybrid Music
Recommendation System Using Semantic Relations and Multi-Domain
Information, M.S.Thesis, September 2011.
- Ugur
Ceylan, An Ontology-Based
Hybrid Recommendation System Using Semantic Similarity Measure and Feature
Weighting, M.S.Thesis, September 2011.
- Sayil Sacak
Duzgun, BORGO: A Book
Recommender for Reading Groups, M.S.Thesis, January 2012.
- Elif
Kamer Karatas, An Ontology-Based Approach to Requirements Reuse Problem in
Software Product Lines, M.S.Thesis, August 2012.
- Ceyda Er
Koksoy, Improved Wind Power Forecasting Using Combination Methods,
M.S.Thesis, September 2015.
- Yusuf
Arslan, M.S.Thesis, Basin-based Clustering of Hydroelectric Power Plants
in Turkey by Use of Stream-Flow and Hydroelectric Energy Production Data,
September 2015.
Publications
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Ceyda Er Koksoy, Mehmet Baris
Ozkan, Serkan Buhan, Turan Demirci, Aysenur Birturk, and Pinar Karagoz,
Improved Wind Power Forecasting Using Combination Methods, Special session on
Machine Learning in Energy Applications of the 14th IEEE International
Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'15), Miami, Florida,
USA, December 9 – 11, 2015.
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Yusuf Arslan, Aysenur Birturk,
Sinan Eren, Basin Clustering of Turkey by Use of Monthly Stream-flow Data,
Special session on Machine Learning in Energy Applications of the 14th IEEE
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'15),
Miami, Florida, USA, December 9 – 11, 2015.
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Ceyda Er Koksoy, Mehmet Baris
Ozkan, Dilek Kucuk, Abdullah Bestil, Sena Sonmez, Serkan Buhan, Turan Demirci,
Pinar Karagoz and Aysenur Birturk, Performance Analysis of Data Mining
Techniques for Improving the Accuracy of Wind Power Forecast Combination,
ECML/PKDD 2015, 3rd International Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable
Energy Integration (DARE'15), 6-11 September 2015, Porto, Portugal.
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Fatih Gurcan, Aysenur Birturk, A
Hybrid Movie Recommender using Dynamic Fuzzy Clustering, 30th International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2015), 23-25 September
2015, London, UK. Book Chapter in Information Sciences and Systems 2015, Volume
363 of the series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, pp 159-169, 04
August 2015, Editors: Omer H. Abdelrahman, Erol Gelenbe, Gokce Gorbil, Ricardo
Lent. ISBN: 978-3-319-22634-7 (Print) 978-3-319-22635-4 (Online)
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Elif Karatas, Baris Iyidir, and
Aysenur Birturk, Ontology-based Software Requirements Reuse: Case Study in Fire
Control SPL Domain, The 3rd InternationalWorkshop on Software Mining, In
conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ( ICDM 2014),
Shenzhen, China, December 14-17, 2014.
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Kemal Alecakir, Aysenur Birturk,
Ontoloji Tabanlı Tıbbi Form Tasarim Aracı, accepted for oral
presentation at Global Conference on Healthcare Systems Engineering (GCHSE) 2014, Istanbul Technical University,
Macka, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-8 August 2014 (withdrawn paper, since not
registered).
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Sayil Düzgün, Aysenur Birtürk, A
Web-based Book Recommendation Tool for Reading Groups, The AAAI 2012 (The
Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization and Recommender Systems (ITWP 2012), 22-26 June 2012, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
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Elif Kamer Karataş,
Barış İyidir ve Ayşenur Birtürk. Yazılım Ürün
Hattı Yaklaşımında Gereksinimlerin Yeniden
Kullanımı: ASELSAN Deneyimi, 6.Ulusal Yazılım
Mühendisliği Sempozyumu (UYMS 2012), 30 Mayıs-1 Haziran 2012.
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Ipek TATLI, Aysenur BIRTURK, A
Tag-based Hybrid Music Recommendation System Using Semantic Relations and
Multi-domain Information, The Fifth ICDM Workshop on Mining Multiple
Information Sources (MMIS11), In conjunction with The IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-11), December 11-14, 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
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Ipek TATLI, Aysenur BIRTURK,
Using Semantic Relations in Context-based Music Recommendations, ACM RecSys'11
Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery
(WOMRAD11), In conjunction with ACM RecSys 2011, 22-27 October 2011,
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Sayil Duzgun, Aysenur Birturk,
BoRGo: A Book Recommender for Reading Groups, accepted for oral presentation at
ACM RecSys'11 Workshop on "Human Decision Making in Recommender
Systems", In conjunction with the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender
Systems, 22-27 October 2011, Chicago, Illinois, USA (withdrawn paper, since not
registered).
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Ugur Ceylan, Aysenur Birturk,
Combining Feature Weighting and Semantic Similarity Measure for a Hybrid Movie
Recommender System, The fifth International Workshop on Social Network Mining
and Analysis (SNAKDD 2011), In conjunction with 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2011), August 21, 2011.
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Ugur Ceylan, Aysenur Birturk,
Content-boosted Collaborative Filtering Using Semantic Similarity Measure, 7th
International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
(WEBIST'11), 6-9 May 2011,
Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
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Ipek Tatli, Aysenur Birturk. A
Content-based Recommendation System for Music Domain Based on Tags. Accepted to
eChallenges e-2010, 27-29 October 2010, Warsaw, Poland (withdrawn paper, since
not registered).
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Fatih Aksel, Aysenur Birtürk.
Enhancing Accuracy of Hybrid Recommender Systems through Adapting the Domain
Trends, The International Workshop on the Practical Use of Recommender Systems,
Algorithms and Technologies (PRSAT 2010) in conjunction with the 4th ACM
Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2010), 26-30 September 2010,
Barcelona, Spain.
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Fatih Aksel, Aysenur Birtürk. An
Adaptive Hybrid Recommender System that Learns Domain Dynamics, International
Workshop on Handling Concept Drift in Adaptive Information Systems: Importance,
Challenges and Solutions (HaCDAIS2010) at the European Conference on Machine
Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2010
(ECML PKDD 2010), 20-24 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
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Fatih Mehmet Guler, Aysenur
BIRTURK, Natural Intelligence – Commonsense Question Answering with
Conceptual Graphs, The 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures
(ICCS 2010), 26-30 July 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA, in Conceptual
Structures: From Information to Intelligence. M. Croitoru, S. Ferré, D. Lukose (Eds.) : ICCS 2010, LNAI 6208, PP.
97-107, Springer-Verlag, 2010.
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Cakiroglu Seda, Birturk Aysenur,
Suggest Me a Movie: A Multi-Client Movie Recommendation Application on
Facebook, 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS 2010), 22-24 September 2010, London, UK (to be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering, LNEE).
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Cakiroglu Seda, Birturk Aysenur,
Suggest Me A Movie - Multi-Client Movie Recommendation Application on Facebook
with Consideration of Virtual Social Profiles, accepted as a poster (4-pages
paper) in the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Technologies (WEBIST10), 7-10 April 2010, Valencia, Spain (withdrawn paper,
since not registered).
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Azak Mustafa, Birturk Aysenur, CrosSing Framework: A
Dynamic Infrastructure to Develop Knowledge-Based Recommenders in Cross
Domains, 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Technologies (WEBIST10), 7-10 April 2010, Valencia, Spain.
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Sunercan Omer, Birturk
Aysenur, Wikipedia Missing Link
Discovery: A Comparative Study, AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets
Artificial Intelligence (Linked AI 2010), March 22-24, 2010, Stanford, CA.
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Birturk Aysenur Akyuz, Fong
Sandiway, A Computational Analysis of Turkish In the Principles and Parameters
Framework, 4th Language & Technology Conference:Human Language Technologies
as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC09), November 6-8,
2009, Poznań, Poland.
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Fatih Aksel, Aysenur Birturk, A
Hybrid Movie Recommendation System, eChallenges e-2009 Conference Proceedings,
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information
Management Corporation, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-905824-13-7.
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Mustafa Azak, Aysenur Birturk,
CrosSing: A Framework to Develop Single and Cross Domain Recommenders,
eChallenges e-2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam
Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2009,
ISBN: 978-1-905824-13-7.
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Omer Sunercan, Aysenur Birturk,
Enriching Wikipedia Link Structure Using Links and Categories, eChallenges
e-2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds),
IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2009, ISBN:
978-1-905824-13-7.
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Soner Kara, Aysenur Birturk,
TurkSum: A Generic Turkish Text Summarizer using Relevance Measure, eChallenges
e-2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds),
IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2009, ISBN:
978-1-905824-13-7.
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Fatih Mehmet Guler, Aysenur
BIRTURK, A Conceptual Graph Based Question Answering System, In the Workshop on
Graph Structures For Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (GKR 2009) at the
Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-09), July 11-17, 2009, Pasadena,
California, USA.
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Oznur KIRMEMIS, Aysenur BIRTURK,
A Content-Based User Model Generation and Optimization Approach for Movie
Recommendation, In 6th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization & Recommender Systems at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), 13-17 July 2008, Chicago, Illinois.
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Oznur KIRMEMIS, Aysenur BIRTURK,
A User Controlled Content Based Movie Recommender with Explanation and Negative
Feedback, In 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Technologies (WEBIST '08), 4-7 May 2008, Funchal, Portugal.
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Selcuk Kopru, Adnan Yazici, Tolga
Ciloglu, Aysenur Birturk, Coupling speech recognition and rule-bases machine
translation with chart parsing; The Language and Speech Technology Conference,
LangTech 2008, 28-29 February 2008, Rome, Italy.
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Oznur KIRMEMIS, Aysenur BIRTURK,
A Content Based Movie Recommendation
System, in Expanding the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications,
Case Studies, Paul Cunningham and Miriam
Cunningham(Eds), IOS Press, 2007
Amsterdam, ISBN 978-1-58603-801-4; eChallenges 2007, 24-26 October 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Ozgen Canan, Aysenur Birturk,
Motion Economy and Planning, Proc. of 16th Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and
Scheduling(ICAPS'06), Cumbria, UK, June 6-10, 2006.
·
Birturk Aysenur Akyuz, Fong
Sandiway, "A Modular Approach to Turkish Noun Compounding: The Integration
of a Finite-State Model", 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim
Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, November 2001.
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Birturk Aysenur Akyuz, "A
Cascaded Finite State Machine for Parsing Turkish Noun Compounds", The
Sixteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences",
Antalya, Turkey, November 2001.
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Birturk Aysenur, "Turkcenin
Yonetim ve Baglama Kurami Yaklasimi ile Bilgisayarla Cozumlenmesi",
Yuvarlak Masa Toplantisi (Bilgisayarla Dogal Dil Islemleme - K.Oflazer,
U.Turan, A.Birturk, C.Bozsahin) Bildirisi, XII. Dilbilim Kurultayi Bildirileri,
14-16 Mayis 1998, Mersin Universitesi, 259-280.
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Birturk Aysenur, Fong Sandiway,
Bozsahin Cem, "A Computational Model of Verb Incorporation in Turkish",
NEC Research Institute, Inc. Technical Report, TR#97-025, January 31, 1997.
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Birturk Aysenur, Tolun Mehmet,
"Öğrenen Bilgisayarlar II (Machine Learning II)", Bilişim,
March 1994.
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Birturk Aysenur, Tolun Mehmet,
"Öğrenen Bilgisayarlar I (Machine Learning I)", Bilişim,
February 1994.
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Birturk Aysenur, Akman Varol,
"Uzman Sistemler, Yonetim Bilgi Sistemleri- Yapay Zekanin Firmalarin Mali
Tahlilinde Kullanilmasi (Expert Systems and Financial Analysis of Firms)",
7.Turkiye Bilgisayar Kongresi Bildirileri, İstanbul, 79-85, 28-30 May 1990.
Honors and Awards
- TUBITAK
(The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) High School
Scholar, 1977-1980.
- TUBITAK
Undergraduate Scholar, 1980-1985.
- TUBITAK
Honor Graduate Scholar, 1985-1988.
- 1st
place (individual award), TUBITAK High School Chemistry Contest, 1980.
- 2nd
place (team award), TUBITAK High School Mathematics Contest, 1980.
- 1st
place (team award), TUBITAK High School Physics Contest, 1980.
- 3rd
place (team award), TUBITAK High School Physics Contest, 1979.
Some
Talks/Seminars
- 'A Cascaded Finite State Transducer for Turkish Noun
Compounding', Participant Workshop Presentation, NATO Advanced Study
Institute on Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages, Bilkent
University, July3-14, 2000.
- 'A GB
Analysis of Word Order Variation in Turkish', NECI Summer Seminars, August
'97.
- 'Turkish
PAPPI', NECI Summer Seminars, August '96.
- Researcher,
METU-ISTEC #17435 TUBITAK 105E068, Funding
Agency: TUBITAK, 1/6/2006-30/3/2008, Overall Budget: 504,000 YTL.
- Researcher,
HASAT(Otomatik Hedef Tanıma Algoritmaları Geliştirilmesi), 2010.03.01.2.00.24, 8 /2010-
7 /2013, Budget: 601637.00 YTL
· Project Consultant, Açık
Alan Soru Cevaplama Sistemi, TUBITAK-TEYDEP 1512, 2120039, 1-31/12/2013, PragmaCraft
Yazılım Limited Şirketi.
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Memberships
Useful Links
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ACM
EACL
ECCAI
ICCL/COLING
IEEE
IJCAI
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Favourite Quotations
Try not to become a
man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
Ya olduğun gibi görün, ya göründüğün gibi ol. Either exist as you are
or be as you look.
-Mevlana
Some years ago, someone wrote a book called "The Seven Laws of
Money." One of the "laws" went something like this: "Do
good work and don't worry about money; it will come along as a side
effect." Whether or not that's true of money, I don't know, but in my
experience, it's true of credit for scientific work. Just make sure you keep
working at important problems, enjoying a life of science, and don't worry so
much about credit. You will probably get what you deserve -- as a side effect.
-Nils Nilsson
"Not everything
that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted
counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Education is an
admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that
is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but
does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
-Anna Quindlen
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-David McCullough
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
-Franklin P. Jones
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that
'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done
the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice,
too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget
about success.'
- Helen Hayes
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up.
-Thomas A. Edison
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their
lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-Oscar Wilde