Research

 

           Research Interests

  • Cognitive Aspects of Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction Concepts
  • Behavioral and Computational Studies using Eye Tracking and fMRI technologies
  • Evaluation of Cognitive Modeling Practices and Tools
  • Computational Modeling of Cognition using Cognitive Architectures
  • Corpus Design 
  • Discourse and Analogy related studies in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science  

 

           Thesis Supervised (Completed)

  • Stepanov, Evgueni A. Implementing Cognitive Grammar on a Cognitive Architecture: A Case Study. 2004 (Principal Supervisor)
  • Özyörük, Nilüfer. A Computational Model of Memory Processes in the Expectation-Violation Effect. 2004 (Principal Supervisor)
  • Gürgen, Erkan. Integrating Landmarks Into a Computational Model of Early Cognitive Mapping. 2002 (Principal Supervisor)
  • Yilmaz Bican, Filiz. A Computational Analysis of Information Structure in Turkish. 2001 (Co-supervisor)
  • Alkan, Sarper. Cognitive Basis of the Concept of Conscious Self. 2005. (Co-supervisor)
  • Biyikoglu, Kaan. A Markov Model for Chorale Harmonization in the Style of J. S. Bach. 2002 (Co-supervisor)
  • Erus, Güray. 2LRL: A Two-level, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Communication. 2002 (Co-supervisor)
  • Mersin, Serhan. A Hypercomputational Approach to the Agent Causation Theory of Free Will. 2006 (Co-supervisor)
  • Özagaç, Oya. A Minimalistic Approach to Russian-English-Turkish Multilingualism. 2002 (Co-supervisor)
  • Keskin, Cem. Vp Shells And Argument Structure In Turkish. 2002 (Co-supervisor)

 

 Publications

 

·         Oflazer, Kemal, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Orhan Bilgin and Bilge Say. “A Preprocessor for Turkish Text Analysis”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3280, Springer-Verlag. Proceedings of 19th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS ’04), October 2004, Antalya, Turkey.

·         Oflazer, Kemal, Özlem Çetinoğlu and Bilge Say. “Integrating Morphology with Multiword Expression Processing in Turkish.” Proceedings of  Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing Workshop in ACL 2004. July 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

·         Özge, Umut and  Bilge Say. “Development of a Corpus Workbench for the METU Turkish
Corpus”, 4th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Lizbon, Portugal,
May 2004.

·         Atalay, Nart Bedin, Kemal Oflazer and Bilge Say. “The Annotation Process in
the Turkish Treebank”. Proceedings of 11th Conference of the EACL-4th
Linguistically Interpreted Corpora Workshop- LINC, Hungary. April 2003.

·         Oflazer Kemal, Bilge Say and Dilek  Hakkani-Tür, G. Tür. “Design for a Turkish
Treebank”. In A. Abeille (ed). Building and Exploiting Parsed Corpora. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, September 2003.

·         Say, Bilge. “Lisansüstü Egitimde bir Gereksinim Mühendisligi Dersi Uygulamasi”
I.Ulusal Yazilim Mühendisligi Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı, s. 158-161, Izmir, Turkey. Ekim, 2003.

·         Say, Bilge, Deniz Zeyrek, Kemal Oflazer and Umut Özge. “Development of a Corpus
and a Treebank for Present-day Written Turkish”. In Current Research in Turkish Linguistics. Kamile İmer and Gürkan Doğan (eds), pp. 183-192, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Eastern Mediterranean University,
Northern Cyprus. August, 2002.

·         Say,  Bilge, Umut Özge and Kemal Oflazer.  “Bilgisayar Ortaminda bir Derlem
Gelistirme Çalismasi”, Akademik Bilisim Konferansi, Konya, Turkey. February,
2002.

·         Oflazer, Kemal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Bilge Say. "A Syntactic Annotation Scheme for Turkish". 10th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, 2000.

·         Say, Bilge. "Modeling Cue Phrases in Turkish: A Case Study", in Lectures Notes in AI, No: 1692, Matousek et al (eds), pp. 337-340, Springer Verlag, 1999. 

·         Say, Bilge and Varol Akman. "Current Approaches to Punctuation in Computational Linguistics", in Computers and the Humanities , 30(6): 457-469, 1997.

·         Say, Bilge. "An Information-based Approach to Punctuation", PhD Thesis, Dept. of   Engineering and Information Sciences, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, November 1998.

·         Bayraktar, Murat, Varol Akman and Bilge Say. "An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma". , in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics , 3(1): 33-58, 1998.

·         Say, Bilge. "An Information-Based Approach to Punctuation", in Proceedings of Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '97) , p.818, Providence, Rhode Island, 1997.

·         Say, Bilge and Varol Akman. "Information-Based Aspects of Punctuation", in Proceedings of SIGPARSE 96: A Workshop on Punctuation in Computational Linguistics, pp. 49-56, 28 June 1996. In Conjunction with 34th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Cruz, USA.

Corpus and Treebank Projects

Last Updated on 5 February 2005

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