Ebru ARISOY, PhD Candidate
Publications: 2 theses, 1 book chapter, 4 journal articles, 13 international conference papers, 6 national conference papers.
 
Theses
1. Language Modeling for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Turkish,
    Ph.D. thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. (in progress)
2. Turkish Dictation System for Radiology and Broadcast News Applications,
    M.Sc. thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004.
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Book Chapter
1. E. Arisoy, M. Kurimo, M. Saraclar, T. Hirsimäki, J. Pylkkönen, T. Alumäe and H. Sak,
    Statistical Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Agglutinative Languages,
    Speech Recognition, Technologies and Applications, Book edited by: France Mihelič and Janez Žibert,
    ISBN 978-953-7619-29-9, pp. 550, November 2008, I-Tech, Vienna, Austria.
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Journal Articles
1. E. Arisoy, D. Can, S. Parlak, H. Sak and M. Saraclar,
    Turkish Broadcast News Transcription and Retrieval,
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 17(5):874-883, July 2009.
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2. E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Lattice Extension and Vocabulary Adaptation for Turkish LVCSR,
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 17(1):163-173, Jan 2009.
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3. M. Creutz, T. Hirsimki, M. Kurimo, A. Puurula, J. Pylkknen, V. Siivola, M. Varjokallio, E. Arisoy, M. Saraclar, and A.
    Stolcke,
    Morph-Based Speech Recognition and Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages,
    ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Volume 5, Issue 1, Article No. 3, December 2007.
4. E. Arisoy, H. Dutagaci and L. M. Arslan,
    A Unified Language Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Turkish,
    Signal Processing, 86 (10):2844-2862.
    (doi)
 
Peer-Reviewed International Conference Papers
1. E. Arisoy, M. Saraclar, B. Roark and I. Shafran
    Syntactic and Sub-lexical Features for Turkish Discriminative Language Models,
    will appear in Proceedings of ICASSP 2010.
2. E. Arisoy, T. Pellegrini, M. Saraclar and L. Lamel,
    Enhanced Morfessor Algorithm with Phonetic Features: application to Turkish,
    In Proceedings of SPECOM 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia.
3. E Arisoy, B. Roark, I. Shafran and M. Saraclar,
    Discriminative N-gram Language Modeling for Turkish,
    In Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 825–828.
4. E. Arisoy, H. Sak and M. Saraclar,
    Language Modeling for Automatic Turkish Broadcast News Transcription,
    In Proceedings of Interspeech-Eurospeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 2381–2384.
5. M. Creutz, T. Hirsimaki, M. Kurimo, J. Pylkkonen, V. Siivola, M. Varjokallio, E. Arisoy, M. Saraclar and A. Stolcke,
    Analysis of Morph-Based Speech Recognition and the Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages,
    In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2007, Rochester, NY, USA, pp. 380-387.
6. E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Lattice Extension and Rescoring Based Approaches for LVCSR of Turkish,
    In Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
7. M. Kurimo, M. Creutz, M. Varjokallio, E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes - Morpho Challenge 2005: Application to Automatic Speech Recognition,
    In Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
8. M. Kurimo, A. Puurula, E. Arisoy, V. Siivola, T. Hirsimaki, J. Pylkkonen, T. Alumae and M. Saraclar,
    Unlimited Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Agglutinative Languages,
    In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006, New York, USA, pp. 487-494.
9. M. Kurimo, M. Creutz, M. Varjokallio, E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Unsupervised Segmentation of Words into Morphemes - Challenge 2005, An Introduction and Evaluation Report,
    In Proceedings of PASCAL Challenge Workshop on unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes, Venice, Italy.
10. E. Arisoy and L. M. Arslan,
    Turkish Dictation System for Broadcast News Applications,
    In Proceedings of Eusipco 2005, Antalya, Turkey.
11. E. Arisoy and L. M. Arslan,
    Turkish Radiology Dictation System,
    In Proceedings of SPECOM 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia.
12. E. Arisoy and L. M. Arslan,
    A New Universal Language for Robust Speech Recognition Applications,
    In Proceedings of TSD 2004, Brno, Czech Republic.
13. E. Arisoy, L.M. Arslan, M. Demiralp, H.K. Ekenel, M. Kelepir, H.M. Meral, A. S. Ozsoy, O. Sayli, O. Turk, B.C. Yolcu,
    Duration of Turkish Vowels Revisited,
    In Proceedings of ICTL 2004, Izmir, Turkey.
 
Peer-Reviewed National Conference Papers (in Turkish)
1. E. Arisoy ve M. Saraclar,
    Türkçe GDSKT için Konuşma Tanıma Hatalarının Analizi,
    In Proceedings of IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 9-11 Nisan 2009.
2. E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Türkçe Haber Programları için Konuşma Tanıma,
    In Proceedings of IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Eskişehir, Türkiye, Haziran 11-13, 2007.
3. İ. Uzun, E. Arisoy,  R. Edizkan and M. Saraclar,
    Dağıtık Yapıda Türkçe Sürekli Konuşma Tanıma Sisteminde Seyrek Paket Kayıplarının Analizi ve Telafisi,
    In Proceedings of IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Eskişehir, Türkiye, Haziran 11-13, 2007.
4. E. Arisoy and M. Saraclar,
    Geniş Dağarcıklı Konuşma Tanıma Sistemleri için Örünün Yeniden Değerlendirilmesi Tabanlı Dil Modellemesi Yaklaşımları,
    In Proceedings of IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Antalya, Türkiye, Nisan 17-19, 2006.
5. E. Arisoy and L.M. Arslan,
    Türkçe Gazete Haberleri Dikte Sistemi,
    In Proceedings of IEEE 14. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Kayseri, Turkey, Mayıs 16-18, 2005.
6. E. Arisoy and L.M. Arslan,
    Dayanıklı Konuşma Tanıma Uygulamaları için Evrensel bir Insan-Makine Dilinin Geliştirilmesi,
    In Proceedings of 13. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Istanbul, Türkiye, Haziran 18-20, 2004.
 
 
Education:
 
Ph.D            Bogazici University, Turkey, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, degree expected in December 2009
                        Thesis Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Murat Saraclar
                        Thesis Topic: Statistical Language Modeling for LVCSR of Turkish
 
M.Sc.           Bogazici University, Turkey, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2004
                        Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Levent M. Arslan
                        Thesis:Turkish Dictation System for Radiology and Broadcast News Applications
 
B.Sc.            Bogazici University, Turkey, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2002
Work Experience:
06/09-present        Researcher in Telematics and Informatics Research Center (TAM), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
12/07-06/08            Visiting Ph.D. Student at Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                    Conducted research with Prof. Richard Sproat
 
03/07-12/07            Visiting Ph.D. Student at OGI School of Science & Engineering, OHSU.
                                    Conducted research with Prof. Brian Roark and Prof. Izhak Shafran
 
07/07-present         Researcher in Feature Selection for Discriminative Language Modeling of Turkish Project
                                   Funded by Bogazici University, PI: Asst. Prof. Murat Saraclar
 
06/06-07/09             Researcher in Turkish Broadcast News (BN) Transcription and Retrieval Project
                                    Funded by TUBITAK, PI: Asst. Prof. Murat Saraclar
 
07/05-09/05            Visiting Ph.D. Student at Helsinki University of Technology, Adaptive Informatics Research Centre
                                    Conducted research with Prof. Mikko Kurimo
 
04-07                     Researcher in SIMILAR Network of Excellence within EU's 6th Framework Program.
 
09/02-03/05           Teaching assistant at Bogaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department
Research Interests:
                    Automatic Speech Recognition
                    Statistical Language Modeling
                    Digital Signal Processing
Bogaziçi University,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept.,
34342 Bebek, Istanbul / TURKEY
Phone: +90 212 359 70 09
Fax: +90 212 287 24 65
Email: arisoyeb