Aysenur Akyuz Birturk

 

Contact Information:

Middle East Technical University,
Dept. of Computer Engineering,
06531 Ankara-TURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-210-5578
Fax: +90-312-210-5544
e-mail: birturk@ceng.metu.edu.tr

 

Personal Info

Status: Married with 2 children.

 

Foreign Language:

English

 

Education

Basic Education:

Bahcelievler Deneme Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey, June 1980. (2nd in the rank)

Bachelor of Science:

Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 1985.

(4th in the rank)

Master of Science:

Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, May 1988.
Thesis: A Model for Representing Concepts: Conceptual Dependency Theory.
Advisor: Muren Gokeri.

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.
Advisor: Cem Bozsahin.

 

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 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.

 

  • New Courses developed:

Ceng 463 Introduction to Natural Language Processing

·         Courses taught:

Ceng 111 Introduction to Computer Engineering

Ceng 301 Programming in COBOL

Ceng 112/220/221Programming in Pascal

Ceng 200/210 Programming in Fortran

Ceng 230 C Programming

Ceng 301 Algorithms and Data Structures

Ceng 491-492 Senior Seminar and Project I&II

Ceng 223 Discrete Computational Structures

Ceng 280 Formal Languages and Abstract Machines

Ceng 356 Lisp and Prolog

Ceng 424 Logic for Computer Science

Ceng 463 Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Ceng 461 Artificial Intelligence

Ceng 561 Artificial Intelligence

Ceng 563 Computational Linguistics

Ceng 568 Knowledge Engineering

IDEA C ile Bilgisayar Programciligina Giris

 

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.

 

Thesis Supervised:

  • A Method for Estimation of Empty Categories and its Application to Turkish, Caglar Iskender, M.S.Thesis, December 2002.
  • Generating Motion-Economical Plans for Manual Operations, Ozgen Canan, Ms. Thesis, September 2005.
  • Openmore: A Content-based Movie Recommendation System, Oznur Kirmemis, May 2008.

 

Honors and Awards:

·        TUBITAK(Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council) High School Scholar, 1977-1980.

·        TUBITAK Undergraduate Scholar, 1980-1985.

·        TUBITAK Honor Graduate Scholar, 1985-1988.

·        1st place, TUBITAK High School Chemistry Contest, 1980.

·        2nd place (in group), TUBITAK High School Mathematics Contest, 1980.

·        1st place (in group), TUBITAK High School Physics Contest, 1980.

·        3rd place (in group), TUBITAK High School Physics Contest, 1979.

 

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.

·        'Turkish Compounds', METU Cognitive Science Colloquium, November 26, 1998.

·        'Island Effects in Turkish', METU Cognitive Science Colloquium, April 15, 1998.

·        'A GB Analysis of Word Order Variation in Turkish', NECI Summer Seminars, August '97.

·        'Scrambling in Turkish and its effects on binding', METU Cognitive Science Colloquium, April 1, 1997.

·        'Turkish PAPPI', NECI Summer Seminars, August '96.

 

Publications

  1. Birturk Aysenur, "A Model for Representing Concepts: Conceptual Dependency Theory", Master's Thesis, METU, May 1988.
  2. 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, 1990.
  3. Birturk Aysenur, Tolun Mehmet, "Ogrenen Bilgisayarlar I(Machine Learning I)", Bilisim, February 1994.
  4. Birturk Aysenur, Tolun Mehmet, "Ogrenen Bilgisayarlar II(Machine Learning II)", Bilisim, March 1994.
  5. 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.
  6. Birturk Aysenur, "A computational Analysis of Turkish using the Government-Binding Approach", Ph.D. Thesis, METU, January 1998.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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 (LTC’09), November 6-8, 2009, Poznań, Poland.

 

Projects

    1. Researcher, A Personal Multimedia Knowledge Management System (Kisisel Video Bilgi Yonetim Sistemi) 

      BAP-2007-03-12-01 1/4/2007-31/3/2009 4250 YTL

    1. Researcher, An Ontology-Based Turkish Question-Answering System (Ontoloji-Tabanli Turkce Soru-Cevaplama Sistemi )

      BAP-2007-03-12-02   1/4/2007-31/3/2009 3500 YTL

    1. Researcher, METU-ISTEC #17435 TUBITAK 105E068

      Funding Agency: TUBITAK 1/6/2006-30/3/2008 Overall Budget: 504,000 YTL

 

Scientific Interest Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert Systems, Recommender Systems.