Kemal Oflazer's
Recent Publications

2006

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

2005

  1. Esra Vural, Hakan Erdogan, Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanikoglu, An Online Handwriting Recognition System For Turkish, in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #5676 Electronic Imaging 2005, San Jose, Jan. 2005

  2. Kemal Oflazer, Dinçer Erbaş and Müge Erdoğmuş, Using Finite State Technology in a Tool for  Linguistic Exploration, (to appear) in Proceedings of FSMNLP 2005, LNAI, Helsinki, Finland, September, 2005.

  3. Oğuzhan Külekçi, Kemal Oflazer, Pronunciation Disambiguation in Turkish, (to appear) in Proceedings of ISCIS, LNCS, Oct, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey

  4. .Ilknur Durgar-El -Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, Aligning Turkish and English Parallel Texts for Statistical Machine Translation, (to appear) in Proceedings of ISCIS, LNCS, Oct, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

2004

  1. Kemal Oflazer, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Orhan Bilgin and Bilge Say, A Preprocessor for Turkish Text Analysis,  in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280 -- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.

  2. Kemal Oflazer and Pınar Dönmez: SmartReader: An NLP-based Interactive Reading Application for Language Learning,  in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280-- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Yasin Yılmaz, Developing Finite State NLP Systems with a Graphical Environment, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280-- Proceedings ISCIS'04, October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.

  4. Kemal Oflazer and Yasin Yılmaz, Vi-xfst: A Visual Regular Expression Development Environment for Xerox Finite State Tool, in Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Sigphon Workshop, July 2004, Barcelona, Spain

  5. Kemal Oflazer, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Bilge Say, Integrating Morphology with Multi-word Expression Processing in Turkish,  in Proceedings of the ACL 2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions:Integrating Processing, July 2004, Barcelona, Spain,

  6. İlknur Durgar-El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, Use of WordNet for Retrieving Words from Their Meanings in Proceedings of the Global WordNet Conference, Masaryk, Czech Republic, January 2004

  7. Orhan Bilgin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Kemal Oflazer, Morphosemantic Relations In and Across Wordnets: A Preliminary Study Based on Turkish, in Proceedings of the Global WordNet Conference,Masaryk, Czech Republic, January 2004

2003

  1. Kemal Oflazer (Editor), Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages, IOS Press, 2003

  2. Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas, A   Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish Based on Two-Level Morphology,   in  Proceedings of Eurospeech  Sept. 1-4, Geneva, Switzerland

  3. Kemal Oflazer, Sharon Inkelas, A  Finite State Pronunciation Lexicon for Turkish,  in  Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Finite State Methods in NLP, April 13-14, 2003, Budapest, Hungary

  4. Nart B. Atalay, Kemal Oflazer, Bilge Say,  The Annotation Process in the Turkish Treebank, in  Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora - LINC, April 13-14, 2003, Budapest, Hungary

  5. İlknur Durgar-El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer, Retrieving Words from Their Meanings, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Balkan Languages  Resources and Tools at 1st Balkan Conference in Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 21-23, 2003

  6. Kemal Oflazer, Lenient Morphological Analysis,  Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Finite State Methods in NLP , Vol 9, No:1, 2003.

  7. Kemal Oflazer, Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite-state Approach, Computational Linguistics, Volume 29, No:4 2003.

  8. Gökhan Tür,  Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, A Statistical Information Extraction Systems for Turkish, Natural Language Engineering, Vol.9 No: 2,2003

  9. Kemal Oflazer, Bilge Say, Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür, Building a Turkish Treebank, Invited chapter in Treebanks, Anne Abeille  Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

2002

  1. Sofia Stamou, Kemal Oflazer, Karel Pala, Dimitris Christoudoulakis, Dan Cristea, Dan Tufis, Svetla Koeva, George Totkov, Dominique Dutoit, Maria Grigoriadou, Balkanet: A multilingual Semantic Network for Balkan Languages, In Proceedings of the First International WordNet Conference, Mysore India, January 2002.

  2. Kemal Oflazer, Computational Morphology, in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, McMillan Reference Ltd, 2002.

  3. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Gökhan Tür, Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages, Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 36 No.4,  2002.

2001

  1. Kemal Oflazer, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Bootstrapping Morphological Analyzers by Combining Human Elicitation and Machine Learning ,  in Computational Linguistics, 2001 Vol: 27 No:1 (postscript copy , PDF copy ).

2000

  1. Lauri Karttunen, Kemal Oflazer (Guest Editors), Special Issue: Finite State Methods in NLP , Computational Linguistics, Vol 26 No: 1, March 2000.

  2. Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Name Tagging Using Lexical, Contextual and Morphological Information, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Extraction Meets Corpus Linguistics at Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000), May 2000, Athens, Greece.

  3. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer, Gökhan Tür, Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages,  in Proceedings of COLING 2000, Saarbrucken, Germany, August, 2000, (postscript copy)

  4. Gökhan Tür, Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer Statistical Modeling of Turkish for Automatic Topic Segmentation , Bilkent University, Computer Engineering Technical Report BU-CE-0001, January 2000, (postscript copy)

1999

  1. Kemal Oflazer, Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite State Approach in the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Maryland, USA, June 1999. (also available as Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Technical Report BU-CEIS-9901, January 1999), (postscript copy)

  2. Kemal Oflazer, Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür, Design for a Turkish Treebank , in the Proceedings of Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, at EACL'99, June 12 1999, Bergen, Norway. (Also available as Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Technical Report BU-CEIS-9903, March 1999), (postscript copy)

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Sergei Nirenburg, Practical Bootstrapping of Morphological Analyzers ,in the Proceedings of Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-99) Workshop at EACL'99, June 12 1999, Bergen, Norway. (postscript copy, warning ~1MB)

1998

  1. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani, Gökhan Tür, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, and Kemal Oflazer, A Prototype Interlingua-Based MT System from English to Turkish , in Proceedings of AMTA'98 - Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Science, October 28-31, 1998, Langhorne, PA.

  2. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani and Kemal Oflazer Tactical Generation in a Free Constituent Order Language in Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Volume 4 No:2, June 1998.

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Gökhan Tür,Implementing Voting Constraints with Finite State Transducers In Proceedings of FSMNLP'98 - International Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing, Ankara, Turkey, June 1998 (postscript copy)

  4. Zelal Güngördü and Kemal Oflazer, A Finite-State Kernel Architecture for Turkish Natural Language Processing Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Technical Report BU-CEIS-9804, January 1998, (postscript copy)

  5. Gökhan Tür and Kemal Oflazer Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints In the Proceedings of COLING-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, August 1998 (Draft version available as Bilkent University, Computer Engineering and Information Science Technical Report BU-CEIS-9803, January 1998, (postscript copy) )

1997

  1. Kemal Oflazer, Error-tolerant Retrieval of Trees, In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 19, No 12 1997.

  2. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani, Gökhan Tür, Teruko Mitamura, Eric H. Nyberg 3rd, and Kemal Oflazer. Issues in Generating Turkish from Interlingua. Technical Report CMU-LTI-97-152. Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (postscript copy)

  3. Kemal Oflazer, Morphological Analysis , chapter in Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren, Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

  4. Kemal Oflazer Bir Cizge Arama Problemi Olarak Türkçe Yazim Düzeltmesi", Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalari Kurultayi Bildiri Kitabi, 1-3 Mayis 1997, Kusadasi, Aydin, Turkiye (postscript kopya)

  5. Kemal Oflazer and Gökhan Tür, Morphological Disambiguation by Voting Constraints in Proceedings of ACL'97/EACL'97, The 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July, 7-12, 1997, Madrid Spain.(postscript copy)

1996

  1. Kemal Oflazer and Okan Yilmaz, A Constraint-based Case-frame Lexicon In the Proceedings of COLING'96 Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1996 (postscript copy )

  2. Kemal Oflazer Error-tolerant Tree Matching In the Proceedings of COLING'96 Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1996 (postscript copy )

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Gökhan Tür, Combining Hand-crafted Rules and Unsupervised Learning in Constraint-based Morphological Disambiguation in Proceedings of the ACL-SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, May 1996, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (postscript copy )

  4. Dilek Zeynep Hakkani, Kemal Oflazer, and Ilyas Cicekli Tactical Generation in a Free Constituent Order Language in Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Sussex, UK, June 1996. (postscript copy )

  5. Kemal Oflazer Error-tolerant Finite State Recognition with Applications to Morphological Analysis and Spelling Correction, In Computational Linguistics Vol.22 No:1, 1996. (postscript copy )

1995

  1. Zelal Güngördü, and Kemal Oflazer, Parsing Turkish using the Lexical-Functional Grammar Formalism, Machine Translation Vol 10, Number 4, 1995. ( postscript copy)

  2. Kemal Oflazer Error-tolerant Finite State Recognition (A short version of the above) In the Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT'95, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 1995. (postscript copy )

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Okan Yilmaz, A Constraint-based Case-frame Lexicon Architecture , In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Computational Lexicon, in European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information , Barcelona, Spain, August 1995. (postscript copy )

1994

  1. Kemal Oflazer and I. Kuruöz, Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text in Proceedings of the 4th ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany Oct. 1994. ( postscript copy)

  2. Kemal Oflazer and C. Güzey, Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages,in Proceedings of the 4th ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany Oct. 1994. ( postscript copy)

  3. Zelal Güngördü, and Kemal Oflazer, Parsing Turkish using the Lexical-Functional Grammar Formalism, In Proceedings of COLING'94, The 15th Conference on Computational Linguistics, Kyoto, Japan August, 1994. (postscript copy)

  4. Kemal Oflazer, Two-level Description of Turkish Morphology, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 9, No:2, 1994. (postscript copy)

  5. H.A. Güvenir and Kemal Oflazer, Using a Corpus to Teach Turkish Morphology , in Proceedings of the Seventh Twente Workshop on Language Technology, Entschede, The Netherlands, June 1994 (postscript copy)

1993

  1. Aysin Solak, Kemal Oflazer, Design and Implementation of a Spelling Checker for Turkish, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 8, No:3, 1993, Oxford University Press.( postscript copy)

  2. Cem Yüceer, Kemal Oflazer, A Rotation, Scaling and Translation Invariant Pattern Classification System, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No: 5, May 1993, pp: 687 -- 710.

  3. Kemal Oflazer, Solving Tangram Puzzles: A Connectionist Approach, International Journal on Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, No:5, June 1993.