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Education

Teaching

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Professional

  • I am an area chair for ACL Rolling Review

  • In 2023 - 2024, I am involved with the following Conferences or Workshops:

  • For a more complete list of professional activities, please see my CV.

Recent Publications

See also publication lists on Google Scholar Citations, DBLP or in my CV

  1. Leonie Weissweiler, Valentin Hofmann, Anjali Kantharuban, Anna Cai, Ritam Dutt, Amey Hengle, Anubha Kabra, Atharva Kulkarni, Abhishek Vijayakumar, Haofei Yu, Hinrich Schuetze, Kemal Oflazer, David R Mortensen, Counting the Bugs in ChatGPT's Wugs: A Multilingual Investigation into the Morphological Capabilities of a Large Language Model , In Proceedings of EMNLP'2023 (to appear), Dec. 2023

  2. Figen Beken Fikri, Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Abstractive Summarization with Deep Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Similarity Rewards , Natural Language Engineering (to appear), 2024

  3. Kemal Oflazer and Murat Saraclar (Editors), Turkish Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag -- Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing Book Series, 2018. (See detailed Table of Contents, Amazon)

  4. Figen Beken Fikri, Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Anlamsal Benzerlik için Türkçe Veri Kümesi (Turkish Dataset for Semantic Similarity) , In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2021.

  5. Figen Beken Fikri, Kemal Oflazer, Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Semantic Similarity Based Evaluation for Abstractive News Summarization , In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP Workshop GEM: Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics, August 6, 2021

  6. Arun Pandian, Lamana Mulaffer, Kemal Oflazer and Amna AlZeyara, Precision Event Coreference Resolution Using Neural Network Classifiers, Computation y Sistemas, Volume 24/1, No:1, 2020 (also presented at CICLING 2019, La Rochelle, France, April 2019)

  7. Jun Araki, Lamana Mulaffer, Arun Pandian, Yukari Yamakawa, Kemal Oflazer and Teruko Mitamura, Interoperable Annotation of Events and Event Relations across Domains, In Proceedings of ISA-14, The 14th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Santa Fe, NM, August 2018.

  8. Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash, Mohammad Salameh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa, Fadhl Eryani, Alexander Erdmann and Kemal Oflazer, The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus and Lexicon, In Proceedings of LREC 2018, May 2018.

  9. Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani and Kemal Oflazer, MADARi: A Web Interface for Joint Arabic Morphological Annotation and Spelling Correction, In Proceedings of LREC 2018, May 2018.

  10. Kemal Oflazer, Morphology, in The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics 2nd edition (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, 2017

  11. Rahim Dehkharghani, Yucel Saygin, Berrin Yanikoglu, and Kemal Oflazer, Sentiment Analysis in Turkish at Different Granularity Levels, Natural Language Engineering, Vol 23, No: 4, 2016

  12. Rahim Dehkharghani, Yucel Saygin, , and Kemal Oflazer, SentiTurkNet: A Turkish Polarity Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016

  13. Wajdi Zaghouani, Abdelati Hawwari, Sawsan Alqahtani, Houda Bouamor, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Mona Diab and Kemal Oflazer, Using Ambiguity Detection to Streamline Linguistic Annotation, In Proceedings of Coling Workshop "Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity" (CL4LC), Osaka Japan, December 2016

  14. Wajdi Zaghouani, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ossama Obeid, Sawsan Alqahtani, Mona Diab and Kemal Oflazer, Filtering Dialectal Arabic Text in Two Large Scale Annotation Projects, in Proceedings of the Coling Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), Osaka Japan, December 2016

  15. Wajdi Zaghouani, Nizar Habash, Ossama Obeid, Behrang Mohit, Houda Bouamor and Kemal Oflazer, Building an Arabic Machine Translation Post-Edited Corpus: Guidelines and Annotation. In Proceedings LREC 2016, Slovenia, May 2016

  16. Wajdi Zaghouani, Houda Bouamor, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab, Ossama Obeid, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Sawsan Alqahtani, and Kemal Oflazer, Large Scale Arabic Diacritized Corpus: Guidelines and Framework , In Proceedings LREC 2016, Slovenia, May 2016

  17. Ossama Obeid, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab and Kemal Oflazer, MANDIAC: A Web-based Annotation System For Manual Arabic Diacritization, in Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools 2016 Theme: Social Media, LREC 2016, Slovenia, May 2016

  18. Houda Bouamor; Hassan Sajjad; Nadir Durrani; Kemal Oflazer, QCMUQ$@$QALB-2015 Shared Task: Combining Character level MT and Error-tolerant Finite-State Recognition for Arabic Spelling Correction in Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic NLP, Beijing China, August 2015.

  19. Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ossama Obeid, Mona Diab and Kemal Oflazer, A Pilot Study on Arabic Multi-Genre Corpus Diacritization, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic NLP, Beijing China, August 2015.

  20. Wajdi Zaghouani, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Alla Rozovskaya, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, Correction Annotation for Non-Native Arabic Texts: Guidelines and Corpus, In Proceedings of 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Denver Colorado, June 2015

  21. Serena Jeblee, Weston Feely, Houda Bouamor, Alon Lavie, Nizar Habash and Kemal Oflazer, Domain and Dialect Adaptation for Machine Translation into Egyptian Arabic, in Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2014, October 2014, Doha, Qatar.

  22. Serena Jeblee, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani and Kemal Oflazer, CMUQ$@QALB-2014 An SMT-based System for Automatic Arabic Error Correction, in Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic Nat- ural Language Processing at EMNLP 2014, October 2014, Doha, Qatar.

  23. Houda Bouamor, Hanan Alshikhabobakr, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, A Human Judgement Corpus and a Metric for Arabic MT Evaluation, in Proceedings of EMNLP 2014, October 2014, Doha, Qatar.

  24. Kemal Oflazer, Turkish and its Challenges for Natural Language Processing, Invited paper, Language Resources and Evaluation, April 2014

  25. Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Ossama Obeid, Nadi Tomeh and Kemal Oflazer, Large-scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework, in Proceedings of LREC 2014, 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Iceland, May 2014.

  26. Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash and Kemal Oflazer, A Multidialectal Parallel Corpus of Arabic, in Proceedings of LREC 2014, 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Iceland, May 2014.

  27. Ahmed Salama, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, YouDACC: the Youtube Dialectal Arabic Comment Corpus, in Proceedings of LREC 2014, 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Iceland, May 2014.

  28. Mahmoud Azab, Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer, Hideki Shima, Jun Araki and Teruko Mitamura, An English Reading Tool as an NLP Showcase, in Proceedings of IJCNLP-2013 – Demo Session, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013

  29. Mahmoud Azab, Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer, Hideki Shima, Jun Araki and Teruko Mitamura, An NLP-based Reading Tool for Aiding Non-native English Readers, in Proceedings of RANLP-2013, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2013

  30. Ossama Obeid, Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Kemal Oflazer and Nadi Tomeh, A Web-based Annotation Framework For Large-Scale Text Correction, in Proceedings of IJCNLP-2013 – Demo Session, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013

  31. Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, SuMT: A Framework of Summarization and MT, in Proceedings of IJCNLP-2013, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013. (Best Paper Award)

  32. Elif Eyigoz, Daniel Gildea and Kemal Oflazer, Multi-rate HMMs for Word Alignment, in Proceedings of ACL 2013 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013

  33. Ahmed Salama, Kemal Oflazer and Susan Hagan, Typesetting for Improved Readability using Lexical and Syntactic Information, in Proceedings of ACL 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013

  34. Elif Eyigoz, Daniel Gildea and Kemal Oflazer, Simultaneous Word-Morpheme Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of NAACL 2013. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013

  35. Nathan Schneider, Behrang Mohit, Chris Dyer, Kemal Oflazer and Noah A. Smith, Supersense Tagging for Arabic: the MT-in-the-Middle Attack, in Proceedings of NAACL 2013. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013

  36. Mahmoud Mahmoud Azab, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, Dudley North visits North London: Learning When to Transliterate to Arabic, in Proceedings of NAACL 2013. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013

  37. Emad Mohamed, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, Generating Colloquial Arabic from Standard Arabic, in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jeju, South Korea, July 2012.

  38. Nathan Schneider, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer and Noah A. Smith, Coarse Lexical Semantic Annotation with Supersenses: An Arabic Case Study, in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jeju, South Korea, July 2012.

  39. Emad Mohamed, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer, Annotating and Learning Morphological Segmentation of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, in Proceedings of LREC-2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012

  40. Behrang Mohit, Nathan Schneider, Rishav Bhowmick, Kemal Oflazer and Noah A. Smith, Recall-Oriented Learning of Named Entities in Arabic Wikipedia, in Proceedings of EACL-2012, Avignon France, April 2012.

  41. Reyyan Yeniterzi and Kemal Oflazer, Syntax-to-Morphology Mapping in Factored Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation from English to Turkish, in Proceedings of ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010 (Recently mentioned as one of the interesting papers at the conference, in a recent Natural Language Processing Blog entry)

  42. İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout and Kemal Oflazer, Exploiting Morphology and Local Word Reordering in English to Turkish Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010

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

Contact Info

Qatar Address: Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City, PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar

US Address: Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

US Mobile Phone: +1 (434) 242 4287 Qatar Mobile: (+974) 5589-4469  Email: ko@removethisfirst.andrew.cmu.edu
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This page last updated 07 October 2023.