CEM AKKAYA
Ph.D. Student
Intelligent Systems Program
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Sennott Square 5422


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Recitation

Education

Research Interests

My research interests consist of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Primarily, I am interested in the applications of Word Sense Disambiguation to Subjectivity/Sentiment Analysis. Machine Learning is an integral part of my research. I am particularly interested in active learning and semi-supervised learning methods. Beside this, I also worked on Information Extraction in medical domain. Here is my up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.

Publications

My previous research focused on Information Extraction in medical domain. Now I am moving towards subjectivity analysis.

  • K. Kaiser, C. Akkaya, S. Miksch (2005). Gaining Process Information from Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005), Springer, p. 181 - 190
  • K. Kaiser, C. Akkaya, S. Miksch (2007). How can Information Extraction ease formalizing treatment processes in clinical practice guidelines? A method and its evaluation, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Yaw Gyamfi, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea, and Cem Akkaya (2009). Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling. Joint Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT 2009).
  • Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea. (2009). Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation. (EMNLP 2009).
  • Cem Akkaya, Alexander Conrad, Janyce Wiebe, and Rada Mihalcea (2010). Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation. NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
  • Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Alexander Conrad and Rada Mihalcea (2011). Improving the Impact of Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation on Contextual Opinion Analysis. (CoNNL 2011).

    • Honors & Awards

  • 2006-2007, Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2010-2011, Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
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    Industrial Employment

  • 2005-2006, Software Developer, Intertech
  • 2010, Summer Intern, Yahoo! Inc.
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