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• I am a faculty member in the Computer Science Program at Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar. Here is a recent CV.

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, (View from Google Maps), PA USA.

• M.Sc. Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

• B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

• High-School Robert College (View from Google Maps), Istanbul, Turkey. Here is a very nice view.  This is how I looked back then.

• Before that, I was at Tarsus American College (TAC)

Teaching

• During the Spring 2013, semester, I taught 15-210 Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms,

• During the Fall 2012 semester I taught 15-453 Formal Languages, Automata and Computation. Slides I used in an earlier offering are available here.

Research

• I am mainly interested in Natural Language Processing. These days I am working on statistical machine translation into morphologically complex languages. See publications below for further information.

• Research Projects

• Theses Advised

Professional

• I am the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

• I serve on the Advisory Board for EACL – The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

• I was an Area Chair for the 50^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held in South Korea, July 2012.

• I gave an invited talk at LREC-2012 in Istanbul, Turkey on Turkish and its Challenges for Language Processing.

• I serve on the Editorial Board of

  • Linguistic Issues in Language Technology

• In 2013, I am engaged with the following Conferences or Workshops:

  • Area Chair for the EMNLP 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , to be held in Seattle, WA, Oct. 2013

  • Program Committee Member for ACL 2013 for the following tracks

    • Phonology and Morphology

    • NLP for the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans

    • Tagging and Chunking

  • Program Committee Member for IJCNLP 2013 for the following tracks

    • Phonology and Morphology

    • POS Tagging and Chunking

  • Program Committee Member for SPMRL 2013 - EMNLP-Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages

  • Program Committee Member for FSMNLP 2013: Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

  • Program Committee Member for MT Summit 2013.

  • Program Committee Member for Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Morphology and Semantics Area 2013.

  • Program Committee Member for Dependency Linguistics - DepLing 2013.

  • Program Committee Member for 11th Workshop on Asian Language Resources at IJCNLP 2013.

  • Program Committee Member for Recent Advances in NLP - RANLP 2013.

  • Program Committee Member for 12th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.

  • Program Committee Member for 1^st International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing.

  • Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2013.

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

Selected Recent Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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)

10. 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

11. Özlem Çetinoğlu and Kemal Oflazer, Integrating Derivational Morphology into Syntax in Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Volume 5, John Benjamins Publishers, 2009

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

13. Gülşen Eryiğit and Kemal Oflazer, Statistical Dependency Parsing for Turkish, in Proceedings of EACL 2006 - The 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2006, Trento, Italy

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

Contact Info

Address: Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City, PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar
Office: CMU-Q 1018, Phone: (+974)4454-8634, Email: ko@removethisfirst.cs.cmu.edu
Admin Asst.: Nancy Lacson (+974 )4454-8569

If you need to talk to me please send me mail to me set up an appointment. Please check my calendar here before suggesting time slots and then suggest at least 3-4 15-minute slots suitable for you.

This page last updated 14 February 2013.