| FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES

Kemal OflazerFaculty of Engineering and Natural SciencesNetwork Faculty Memberoflazer@sabanciuniv.edu

Personal Web

http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/oflazer/

Jobs

Network Faculty Member

Education

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), 1978; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, METU, 1979; Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), 1987.

Areas of Interest

Natural language processing; speech processing.

Durgar El-Kahlout, İlknur and Oflazer, Kemal (2010) "Exploiting morphology and local word reordering in English-to-Turkish phrase-based statistical machine translation", IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Vol.18, No.6, 1313-1322 (SCI)

Eryiğit, Gülşen and Nivre, Joakim and Oflazer, Kemal (2008) "Dependency parsing of Turkish", Computational Linguistics, Vol.34, No.3, 357-389 (SCI)

Oflazer, Kemal and Erbaş, Mehmet Dinçer and Erdoğmuş, Müge (2006) "Using finite state technology in a tool for linguistic exploration", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4002, 191-202 (SCI)

Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Oflazer, Kemal and Adalı, Eşref (2006) "Lexical ambiguity resolution for Turkish in direct transfer machine translation models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.4263, 230-238 (SCI)

Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd and Adalı, Eşref and Oflazer, Kemal (2006) "Computer analysis of the Turkmen language morphology", Advances in natural language processing, proceedings (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), Vol.4139, 186-193 (SCI)

Oflazer, Kemal and Inkelas, Sharon (2006) "The architecture and the implementation of a finite state pronunciation lexicon for Turkish", Computer Speech & Language, Vol.20, No.1, 80-106 (SCI)

Külekçi, M. Oğuzhan and Oflazer, Kemal (2005) "Pronunciation disambiguation in Turkish", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3733, 636-645 (SCI)

Bilgin, Orhan and Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Oflazer, Kemal (2004) "Building a wordnet for Turkish", Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Vol.7, No.1-2, 163-172 (NA)

Oflazer, Kemal and Çetinoğlu, Özlem and Bilgin, Orhan and Say, Bilge (2004) "A preprocessor for Turkish text analysis", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3280, 761-770 (SCI)

Oflazer, Kemal and Dönmez, Meryem Pınar (2004) "SmartReader: an NLP-based interactive reading application for language learning", Lecture notes in computer science, Vol.3280, 751-760 (SCI)

Oflazer, Kemal and Yılmaz, Yasin (2004) "Developing finite state NLP systems with a graphical environment", Lecture notes on computer science, Vol.3280, 147-156 (SCI)

Oflazer, Kemal (2003) "Dependency parsing with an extended finite-state approach", Computational Linguistics, Vol.29, No.4, 515-544 (AHCI, SCI, SSCI)

Oflazer, Kemal (2003) "Lenient morphological analysis", Natural Language Engineering, Vol.9, No.1, 87-99 (NA)

Oflazer, Kemal and Nirenburg, Sergei and McShane, Marjorie (2001) "Bootstrapping morphological analyzers by combining human elicitation and machine learning", Computational Linguistics, Vol.27, No.1, 59-85 (SCI)