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Computer Science

D-Index
74
Citations
17967
World Ranking
1521
National Ranking
790

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to spoken language processing

Overview

Dilek Hakkani-Tur is affiliated with Amazon Alexa AI in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within computer science, with substantial work in artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, information systems, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science

Within this domain, subfields that have been particularly addressed are:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Information Systems
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dilek Hakkani-Tur include:

  • Yang Liu
  • Seokhwan Kim
  • Behnam Hedayatnia
  • Karthik Gopalakrishnan
  • Alexandros Papangelis

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022

Recent selected publications include:

  • "DialoGLUE: A Natural Language Understanding Benchmark for Task-Oriented Dialogue" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "MMM: Multi-Stage Multi-Task Learning for Multi-Choice Reading Comprehension" (2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Alexa Teacher Model" (2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
  • "MA-DST: Multi-Attention-Based Scalable Dialog State Tracking" (2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

The scientist has been recognized with the IEEE Fellow award in 2014, cited for contributions to spoken language processing.

Best Publications

  • Using recurrent neural networks for slot filling in spoken language understanding

    Grégoire Mesnil;Yann Dauphin;Kaisheng Yao;Yoshua Bengio

  • Prosody-based automatic segmentation of speech into sentences and topics

    Elizabeth Shriberg;Andreas Stolcke;Dilek Hakkani-Tür;Gükhan Tür

  • Multi-Domain Joint Semantic Frame Parsing Using Bi-Directional RNN-LSTM.

    Dilek Hakkani-Tür;Gokhan Tur;Asli Celikyilmaz;Yun-Nung Chen

  • Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding

    Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur;Robert Elias Schapire;Gokhan Tur

  • Building a Turkish Treebank

    Kemal Oflazer;Bilge Say;Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür;Gökhan Tür

  • What is left to be understood in ATIS

    Gokhan Tur;Dilek Hakkani-Tur;Larry Heck

  • The CALO Meeting Assistant System

    G Tur;A Stolcke;L Voss;S Peters

  • Library of existing spoken dialog data for use in generating new natural language spoken dialog systems

    Lee Begeja;Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio;David Crawford Gibbon;Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur

  • Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages

    Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür;Kemal Oflazer;Gökhan Tür

  • The CALO meeting speech recognition and understanding system

    G. Tur;A. Stolcke;L. Voss;J. Dowding

  • Topical-Chat: Towards Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations.

    Karthik Gopalakrishnan;Behnam Hedayatnia;Qinlang Chen;Anna Gottardi

  • Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play

    Pararth Shah;Dilek Hakkani-Tür;Gökhan Tür;Abhinav Rastogi

  • System and method for building emotional machines

    Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur;Jackson J. Liscombe;Guiseppe Riccardi

  • Active learning: theory and applications to automatic speech recognition

    G. Riccardi;D. Hakkani-Tur

  • Translating Natural Language Utterances to Keyword Search Queries

    Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tur;Gokhan Tur;Rukmini Iyer;Larry Paul Heck

  • A Hybrid Hierarchical Model for Multi-Document Summarization

    Asli Celikyilmaz;Dilek Hakkani-Tur

  • Beyond ASR 1-best: Using word confusion networks in spoken language understanding

    Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür;Frédéric Béchet;Giuseppe Riccardi;Gökhan Tür

  • Active learning for automatic speech recognition

    Dilek Hakkani-Tur;Giuseppe Riccardi;Allen Gorin

  • Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach.

    Shuyang Gao;Abhishek Sethi;Sanchit Agarwal;Tagyoung Chung

  • Statistical morphological disambiguation for agglutinative languages

    Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür;Kemal Oflazer;Gökhan Tür

  • Spoken language understanding

    R. De Mori;F. Bechet;D. Hakkani-Tur;M. McTear

  • MultiWOZ 2.1: Multi-Domain Dialogue State Corrections and State Tracking Baselines

    Mihail Eric;Rahul Goel;Shachi Paul;Abhishek Sethi

Frequent Co-Authors

Gokhan Tur
Gokhan Tur Amazon (United States)
Larry P. Heck
Larry P. Heck Georgia Institute of Technology
Asli Celikyilmaz
Asli Celikyilmaz Facebook (United States)
Giuseppe Riccardi
Giuseppe Riccardi University of Trento
Elizabeth Shriberg
Elizabeth Shriberg International Computer Science Institute
Ruhi Sarikaya
Ruhi Sarikaya Amazon (United States)
Yun-Nung Chen
Yun-Nung Chen National Taiwan University
Li Deng
Li Deng Citadel
Heng Ji
Heng Ji University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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