Manager Computer Science

CURRICULUM VITAE

FERHAN TURE

A.V. Williams Building #3126

Address

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

College Park MD 20742

+1-301-***-**-** (Office)

Tel

*****@**.***.***

E-mail

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fture

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park, 2008 Present.

Advisor: Jimmy Lin

M.Sc., Computer Science, Sabanci University, 2006 2008.

Thesis: A Hybrid Machine Translation System from Turkish to English.

Advisor: Kemal Oflazer

B.Sc., Computer Engineering, KoC University, 2006.

Graduation Project: A Learning-based Turkish Morphological Disambiguation System.

Advisor: Deniz Yuret

B.Sc., Mathematics, KoC University, 2006.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Large-scale Text Processing.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Conference Papers

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Esra Erdem, Ozan Erdem, and Ferhan Ture. HAPLO-ASP: Haplotype Inference

using Answer Set Programming. To appear in Proceedings of 10th International

Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 09),

2009.

4. Elvin Coban, Esra Erdem, and Ferhan Ture. Comparing ASP, CP, ILP on two

Challenging Applications: Wire Routing and Haplotype Inference. In Proceedings

of the Second International Workshop on Logic and Search (LaSh 2008), 2008.

3. Esra Erdem and Ferhan Ture. Efficient Haplotype Inference with Answer Set

Programming. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial

Intelligence (AAAI-08), pages 436-441, 2008.

2. Merve Cayli, Ayse GUl Karatop, Emrah Kavlak, Hakan Kaynar, Ferhan Ture, and Esra

Erdem. Solving Challenging Grid Puzzles with Answer Set Programming. In

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Answer Set Programming

(ASP 07), pages 175-190, 2007.

1. Deniz Yuret and Ferhan Ture. Learning Morphological Disambiguation Rules for

Tu rkish . In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference - North

American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL

2006), pages 328-334, 2006.

Other

Tamer Elsayed, Ferhan Ture, and Jimmy Lin. Brute-Force Approaches to Batch

Retrieval: Scalable Indexing with MapReduce, or Why Bother? Technical Report

HCIL-2010-23, University of Maryland at College Park, October 2010.

Ferhan Ture. A Hybrid Machine Translation System from Turkish to English.

Masters Thesis, Sabanci University, Turkey, July 2008.

Esra Erdem and Ferhan Ture. Efficient Haplotype Inference with Answer Set

Programming. Presented at the International Symposium on Health Informatics and

Bioinformatics (HIBIT 08), Sabanci University, Turkey, May 2008.

RECENT PROJECTS2011-Present

Using Translation Models to Improve CLIR

Joint work with Jimmy Lin and Doug Oard.

Translation models can provide better translations for the task of CLIR by using larger

translation units (e.g. phrases) and wider context. We explore ways that a translation

grammar

and decoder can improve effectiveness and efficiency of CLIR systems.

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2010-Present

Exploring Discourse-level Features in MT Systems

Joint work with Doug Oard and Philip Resnik.

We explore collection and document-level features to improve the quality of Machine

Translation systems. The idea that phrases are translated in a single way throughout a

document is the equivalent of the one-sense-per-discourse heuristic in the context of the

Word

Sense Disambiguation problem. Our approach takes advantage of discourse-level statistics

to

score translation units in a way that encourages consistent translations.

2009-Present

Cross-Lingual Pairwise Similarity Computation in Large Collections of Documents

Joint work with Jimmy Lin and Tamer Elsayed.

Pairwise similarity is the task of finding similar pairs of documents in a large

collection

efficiently. We can extend this to cross-lingual domains such as Wikipedia, to detect

similar

documents written in different languages. We explore an approach based on locality-

sensitive

hashing and show its scalability and effectiveness on German and English Wikipedia

datasets.

2009-2010

Parallel Conditional Random Field (CRF) Training for Machine Translation Systems

Joint work with Chris Dyer, Jimmy Lin, and Philip Resnik.

Our goal is to parallelize CRF training, a discriminative, supervised learning method

that has

many advantages over generative approaches. The feature set that can be used in a CRF

model is very flexible and it can be trained using an EM-like approach. Scalability of

CRF

models is necessary in MT applications, which is the motivation to parallelize the

process

with MapReduce.

2009-2010

Scalable Indexing Approaches using MapReduce

Joint work with Tamer Elsayed and Jimmy Lin.

We explore how MapReduce cluster-based environments may change the traditional IR

workflow: First create an inverted index, then perform retrieval. We introduce a brute

force

approach that performs retrieval directly from documents, and compare its performance and

scalability to indexed IR algorithms.

TEACHING

? University of Maryland

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Programming Language Technologies Undergraduate-level

and Paradigms

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Object-oriented Programming I Undergraduate-level

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? Sabanci University

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Artificial Intelligence Undergraduate-level

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Logic in Computer Science Graduate-level

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Introduction to Probability and Statistics Undergraduate-level

? KoC University

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Numerical Methods Undergraduate-level

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Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs Undergraduate-level

WORK EXPERIENCE

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Research Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Data Analytics Group, Yorktown

Heights, NY.

Mentor:

Amol Ghoting

Manager: Edwin Pednault

From June 6 until August 27, 2010

Intern at Yapi Kredi Insurance, R&D Department, Istanbul Turkey.

Manager: Burak Sayin

From August 15 until September 9, 2005

Intern at Avrupa Software, Istanbul Turkey.

Manager: Murat TUre

From August 16 until September 10, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

? University of Maryland Graduate Assistantship, 2008-2013.

? University of Maryland Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2010.

? Sabanci University Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2008.

? KoC University Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Education, 2002-2006.

? KoC University Vehbi KoC Scholar Award (SPA > 3.70/4.0) in Spring 2003, Fall 2004

? TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Graduate

Scholarship.

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? Ranked 348 among 105,505 in Postgraduate Education Entrance Exam (LES), 2005.

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SKILLS

Languages Turkish (Native), English (Advanced)Programming Tools Java, MapReduce/Hadoop, Perl, Python, C/C++, SQL, Matlab, Lparse,

MIT Scheme (Lisp), Lex-Yacc, OPL, Fortran.

Operating Systems Windows, Unix-based.

Software MS Office, 2D Autocad.References are available on request.

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