Dr. Gokhan Tur is a computer scientist working on spoken language understanding
(SLU), mainly for human/machine conversational systems. He received the Ph.D. degree
in Computer Science from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2000. Between 1997 and 1999,
he was a visiting scholar at the Language Technologies Institute, CMU, then the Johns
Hopkins University, MD, and the Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Lab of SRI, CA.
He worked at AT&T Labs - Research, NJ (2001-2006), working on pioneering
conversational systems such as "How May I Help You?". He worked for the DARPA GALE
and CALO projects at the STAR Lab of SRI, CA (2006-2010). He worked on conversational
understanding systems like Cortana at Microsoft (2010-2016), especially focusing on
deep learning methods. He was briefly with the Apple Siri team (2014-2015). He is
currently with Google Research. Dr. Tur co-authored more than 150 papers published in
journals or books and presented at conferences. He is the editor of the book entitled
"Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from
Speech" by Wiley in 2011. Dr. Tur is also the recipient of the Speech Communication
Journal Best Paper awards by ISCA for 2004-2006 and by EURASIP for 2005-2006. Dr. Tur
is the organizer of the HLT-NAACL 2007 Workshop on Spoken Dialog Technologies, and
the HLT-NAACL 2004 and AAAI 2005 Workshops on SLU, and the editor of the Speech
Communication Issue on SLU in 2006. He is also the spoken language processing area
chair for IEEE ICASSP 2007, 2008, and 2009 conferences and IEEE ASRU 2005 workshop,
spoken dialog area chair for HLT-NAACL 2007 conference, and organizer of SLT 2010
workshop. Dr. Tur is a senior member of IEEE, ACL, and ISCA, was a member of IEEE
Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) (2006-2008), member of the IEEE SPS
Industrial Relations Committee (2013-2014) and an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2010-2014), and Multimedia
Processing (2014-) journals.
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Previous Publications
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Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding
Grégoire Mesnil, Yann Dauphin, Kaisheng Yao, Yoshua Bengio, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He, Larry Heck, Gokhan
Tur, Dong Yu, Geoffrey Zweig
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 23 (2015),
pp. 530-539
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Spoken language understanding
Renato De Mori, Frederic Bechet, Dilek
Hakkani-Tur, Michael McTear, Giuseppe Riccardi, Gokhan Tur
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25:3 (2008), pp. 50-58