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57
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13368
World Ranking
3827
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1816

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in spoken language understanding and applications to virtual personal assistant products

Overview

Gokhan Tur is affiliated with Amazon in the United States. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with specific focus on subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Gokhan Tur has contributed to multiple papers published in a range of venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • TEACh: Task-Driven Embodied Agents That Chat, 2022, 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
  • AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • MASSIVE: A 1M-Example Multilingual Natural Language Understanding Dataset with 51 Typologically-Diverse Languages, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Plato Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Research Platform, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
  • Neurology Perspectives

Frequent collaborators in their research work are:

  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  • Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  • Emre Can Acikgoz
  • Prem Natarajan
  • Vardhan Dongre

In recognition of their contributions, Gokhan Tur was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2020 for leadership in spoken language understanding and applications to virtual personal assistant products.

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

  • Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech

    Gokhan Tur;Renato De Mori

  • 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

  • Generic virtual personal assistant platform

    Osher Yadgar;Neil Yorke-Smith;Bart Peintner;Gokhan Tur

  • Building a Turkish Treebank

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

  • Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user

    Gokhan Tur;Horacio E. Franco;Elizabeth Shriberg;Gregory K. Myers

  • 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

  • Optimizing SVMs for complex call classification

    P. Haffner;G. Tur;J.H. Wright

  • 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

  • Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play

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

  • Automatic detection of sentence boundaries and disfluencies based on recognized words.

    Andreas Stolcke;Elizabeth Shriberg;Rebecca A. Bates;Mari Ostendorf

  • Translating Natural Language Utterances to Keyword Search Queries

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

  • Joint semantic utterance classification and slot filling with recursive neural networks

    Daniel Guo;Gokhan Tur;Wen-tau Yih;Geoffrey Zweig

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Dilek Hakkani-Tur University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Larry P. Heck
Larry P. Heck Georgia Institute of Technology
Asli Celikyilmaz
Asli Celikyilmaz Facebook (United States)
Elizabeth Shriberg
Elizabeth Shriberg International Computer Science Institute
Giuseppe Riccardi
Giuseppe Riccardi University of Trento
Li Deng
Li Deng Citadel
Ruhi Sarikaya
Ruhi Sarikaya Amazon (United States)
Bing Liu
Bing Liu University of Illinois at Chicago
Ye-Yi Wang
Ye-Yi Wang Microsoft (United States)

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