Scholar
Gülşen Eryiğit
Google Scholar ID: 25CpSdkAAAAJ
Professor at Artificial Intelligence & Data Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,373
H-index
22
i10-index
38
Publications
20
Co-authors
49
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Winner of Siemens Excellence Award (2007)
- - Published numerous papers and served as a reviewer or co-author in prestigious journals and conferences
- - Led or participated in various research projects such as 'Information Extraction from Banking Documents using Visual Features', 'Infrastructure Building and Preliminary Scientific Studies on the Development of AI Technologies for Turkey's Priority Areas'
Research Experience
- - Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University
- - Coordinator of the ITU NLP Team
- - Involved in multiple research projects, including TUBITAK-funded 'Parsing Web2.0 Sentences' and 'Turkish Mobile Personal Assistant', and a Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology-funded 'A Signing Avatar System for Turkish to Turkish Sign Language Machine Translation'
- - Served as a consultant or technical advisor to several companies
- - Reviewed many research and industrial proposals for the European Commission (H2020 and Cost Action Programs), TUBITAK, Turkey’s Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, and Swiss National Science Foundation
Education
- - M.S. degree: Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 2002
- - Ph.D. degree: Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 2007
- - Worked as a visiting student researcher at Växjö University, Sweden in 2006, where she was part of the first-ranked team in the Conll shared tasks in 2006 and 2007 on multi-lingual dependency parsing
Background
- - Research in Natural Language Processing, especially the application of Machine Learning techniques into this area
- - National representative of CLARIN (an EU FP7 infrastructure project) in Turkey
- - Member of ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics) and its special interest groups on natural language learning (SIGNLL)
- - Founding member of the ITU Natural Language Processing Research Group
Miscellany
- - Strong interest in Natural Language Processing of Turkish
- - Founder of the ITU Turkish NLP Pipeline, serving over 150 researchers
