Dilek Hakkani-Tür
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I am a senior researcher at ICSI. Previously I was a senior technical staff  member at AT&T Labs - Research, in Florham Park, NJ.

My research interests include:
  • Natural Language and Speech Processing
  • Spoken Dialog Processing
  • Statistical Language Modeling, and 
  • Machine Learning

For more information about my research interests and my background, check the following pages:

Recent Activities:

We are organizing a tutorial on "Spoken Language Understanding" at IEEE ICASSP 2007.

I am an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

We organized a Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding at AAAI 2005, The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005. We (guest) edited the Special Issue of the Speech Communication Journal on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems.

We organized a tutorial at ACL 2004: Adaptive Learning: From Supervised to Active Learning of statistical models for Natural Language and Speech Processing.

We organized a special session: Towards Adaptive Machines: Active and Unsupervised Learning at ICSLP 2004, Eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.

We organized a workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems at HLT-NAACL-04. The details can be found on the workshop home page.

We gave a tutorial at Eurospeech 2003: Adaptive Learning: Technology and Challenges for Automatic Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Understanding.

I am currently working on spoken language understanding for information distillation and spoken dialog systems. Previously, I worked on active learning and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding, natural language generation for machine translation, statistical morphological disambiguation, and information extraction from speech using prosodic and lexical information. Check my CV and publications for more information about my research.

I am a member of ACL and IEEE.

Here are links to Gökhan's (not Gokhan :) and Ada Defne's web pages, and to some pictures of garniTür the fourth member of our family.

My contact information is:

E-mail: dilek@icsi.berkeley.edu OR dilekh@yahoo.com 
Phone: +1 510 666 2939
Address: 1947 Center St., 
              Suite 600, 
              BERKELEY, CA 94704,
              U.S.A.