Publications

PhD Thesis
Journal Articles(10)
International Conference Papers(40)
National Conference Papers (in Turkish)(12)

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PhD Thesis
Journal Articles
  1. Ebru Arisoy, Dogan Can, Siddika Parlak, Hasim Sak and Murat 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. Ebru Arisoy and Murat 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. Oya Aran, Ismail Ari, Lale Akarun, Erinc Dikici, Siddika Parlak, Murat Saraclar, Pavel Campr, Marek Hruz.
    Speech and sliding text aided sign retrieval from hearing impaired sign news videos.
    Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2(2):117–131, Sep 2008.
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  4. Ciprian Chelba, T.J. Hazen, and Murat Saraclar.
    Retrieval and browsing of spoken content.
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 25(3):39-49, May 2008.
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  5. Mathias Creutz, Teemu Hirsimaki, Mikko Kurimo, Antti Puurula, Janne Pylkkonen, Vesa Siivola, Matti Varjokallio, Ebru Arisoy, Murat Saraclar, and Andreas Stolcke.
    Morph-Based Speech Recognition and Modeling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words Across Languages.
    ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, Article 3, December 2007.
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  6. Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, and Michael Collins.
    Discriminative n-gram language modeling.
    Computer Speech and Language, 21(2):373-392, April 2007.
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  7. Murat Saraclar and Brian Roark.
    Utterance classification with discriminative language modeling.
    Speech Communication, 48(3-4):276-287, March-April 2006.
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  8. Murat Saraclar and Sanjeev Khudanpur.
    Pronunciation change in conversational speech and its implications for automatic speech recognition.
    Computer Speech and Language, 18(4):375-395, October 2004.
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  9. Murat Saraclar, Harriet Nock, and Sanjeev Khudanpur.
    Pronunciation modeling by sharing gaussian densities across phonetic models.
    Computer Speech and Language, 14(2):137-160, April 2000.
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  10. Michael Riley, William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andrej Ljolje, John McDonough, Harriet Nock, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, and George Zavaliagkos.
    Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora.
    Speech Communication, 29(2-4):209-224, November 1999.
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Conference Papers
  1. Hasim Sak, Murat Saraclar, and Tunga Gungor.
    Integrating Morphology into Automatic Speech Recognition.
    To appear in Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Merano, Italy, 2009.
  2. Temucin Som, Dogan Can, and Murat Saraclar.
    HMM-based Sliding Video Text Recognition for Turkish Broadcast News.
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Northern Cyprus, 2009.
  3. Erinc Dikici and Murat Saraclar.
    Investigating the Effect of Training Data Partitioning for GMM Supervector Based Speaker Verification.
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Northern Cyprus, 2009.
  4. Hasim Sak, Tunga Gungor and Murat Saraclar.
    A Stochastic Finite-State Morphological Parser for Turkish.
    In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore, 2009.
  5. Siddika Parlak and Murat Saraclar.
    Spoken Information Retrieval for Turkish Broadcast News.
    In Proceedings of Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference (ACM-SIGIR), Boston, MA, USA, 2009.
  6. Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jansche, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Michael Riley, Murat Saraclar, Abhinav Sethy, Morgan Ulinski, Christopher White.
    Web derived Pronunciations for Spoken Term Detection.
    In Proceedings of Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference (ACM-SIGIR), Boston, MA, USA, 2009.
  7. Ebru Arisoy, Thomas Pellegrini, Murat Saraclar, Lori Lamel.
    Enhanced Morfessor Algorithm with Phonetic Features: application to Turkish.
    In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM’09), St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
  8. Pinar Santemiz, Oya Aran, Murat Saraclar, Lale Akarun.
    Extraction of Isolated Signs from Sign Language Videos via Multiple Sequence Alignment.
    In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM’09), St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
  9. Dogan Can and Murat Saraclar.
    Score Distribution Based Term Specific Thresholding for Spoken Term Detection.
    In Proceedings of North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT), Boulder, CO, USA, 2009.
  10. Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Abhinav Sethy, Chris M. White, Bhuvana Ramabhadran and Murat Saraclar.
    Effect of Pronunciations on OOV Queries in Spoken Term Detection.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.
  11. Chris M. White, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Patrick Wolfe, Erica Cooper, Murat Saraclar, James K. Baker.
    Unsupervised Pronunciation Validation.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.
  12. Ebru Arisoy, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran and Murat Saraclar.
    Discriminative N-gram Language Modeling for Turkish.
    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
  13. Hasim Sak, Tunga Gungor and Murat Saraclar.
    Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological Disambiguator and Web Corpus.
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (GoTAL), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008.
  14. Siddika Parlak and Murat Saraclar.
    Spoken Term Detection for Turkish Broadcast News.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2008.
  15. Ebru Arisoy, Hasim Sak and Murat Saraclar.
    Language Modeling for Automatic Turkish Broadcast News Transcription.
    In Proceedings of Interspeech-Eurospeech, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
  16. Zhu Liu and Murat Saraclar.
    Speaker Segmentation and Adaptation for Speech Recognition on Multiple-Speaker Audio Conference Data.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Beijing, China, 2007.
  17. M. Creutz, T. Hirsimäki, M. Kurimo, A. Puurula, J. Pylkkönen, 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 Human Language Technologies / The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2007), Rochester, NY, USA, 2007.
  18. Hasim Sak, Tunga Güngör and Murat Saraclar.
    Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text with Perceptron Algorithm.
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), Mexico City, Mexico, 2007.
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  19. Ebru Arisoy and Murat Saraclar.
    Lattice extension and rescoring based approaches for LVCSR of Turkish.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006.
  20. M. Kurimo, M. Creutz, M. Varjokallio, E. Arisoy, and M. Saraclar.
    Unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes -- Morpho Challenge 2005: Applications to automatic speech recognition.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2006.
  21. 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 the Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York, USA, 2006.
  22. Junlan Feng, Srihari Reddy, and Murat Saraclar.
    WebTalk: Mining websites for interactively answering questions.
    In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
  23. Michael Collins, Brian Roark, and Murat Saraclar.
    Discriminative Syntactic Language Modeling for Speech Recognition.
    In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Ann Arbor, USA, 2005.
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  24. Murat Saraclar and Brian Roark.
    Joint discriminative language modeling and utterance classification.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, USA, 2005.
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  25. Vincent Goffin, Cyril Allauzen, Enrico Bocchieri, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Andrej Ljolje, S. Parthasarathy, Mazin Rahim, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Murat Saraclar.
    The AT&T WATSON speech recognizer.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, USA, 2005.
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  26. Enrico Bocchieri, Michael Riley, and Murat Saraclar.
    Methods for task adaptation of acoustic models with limited transcribed in-domain data.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Jeju Island, South Korea, 2004.
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  27. Andrej Ljolje, Vincent Goffin, and Murat Saraclar.
    Low latency real-time vocal tract length normalization.
    In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Brno, Czech Republic, 2004.
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  28. Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, and Mark Johnson.
    Discriminative language modeling with conditional random fields and the perceptron algorithm.
    In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
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  29. Ali Yazgan and Murat Saraclar.
    Hybrid language models for out of vocabulary word detection in large vocabulary conversational speech recognition.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Canada, 2004.
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  30. Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, and Michael Collins.
    Corrective language modeling for large vocabulary ASR with the perceptron algorithm.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Canada, 2004.
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  31. Murat Saraclar and Richard Sproat.
    Lattice-based search for spoken utterance retrieval.
    In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), Boston, MA, USA, 2004.
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  32. Michiel Bacchiani, Brian Roark, and Murat Saraclar.
    Language model adaptation with MAP estimation and the perceptron algorithm.
    In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), Boston, MA, USA, 2004.
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  33. Lee Begeja, David Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard Renger, Murat Saraclar, and Behzad Shahraray.
    A system for searching and browsing spoken communications.
    In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop on Interdiciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, Boston, MA, USA, 2004.
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  34. Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, and Murat Saraclar.
    General indexation of weighted automata - application to spoken utterance retrieval.
    In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop on Interdiciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, Boston, MA, USA, 2004.
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  35. Murat Saraclar, Michael Riley, Enrico Bocchieri, and Vincent Goffin.
    Towards automatic closed captioning: Low latency real time broadcast news transcription.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Denver, CO, USA, 2002.
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  36. Murat Saraclar and Sanjeev Khudanpur.
    Pronunciation ambiguity vs pronunciation variability in speech recognition.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 1679-1682, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000.
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  37. Murat Saraclar, Harriet Nock, and Sanjeev Khudanpur.
    Pronunciation modeling by sharing gaussian densities across phonetic models.
    In Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), pages 313-316, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.
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  38. Michael Riley, William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andrej Ljolje, John McDonough, Harriet Nock, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, and George Zavaliagkos.
    Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labeled phonetic corpora.
    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Rolduc, The Netherlands, 1998.
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  39. William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, John McDonough, Harriet Nock, Michael Riley, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, and George Zavaliagkos.
    Pronunciation modelling using a hand-labelled corpus for conversational speech recognition.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 313-316, Seattle, WA, USA, 1998.
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  40. William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, John McDonough, Harriet Nock, Michael Riley, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, and George Zavaliagkos.
    Pronunciation modelling for conversational speech recognition: A status report from ws97.
    In IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Proceedings (ASRU), pages 26-33, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, December 1997.
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  41. Eric Fosler, Mitch Weintraub, Steven Wegmann, Yu-Hung Kao, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Charles Galles, and Murat Saraclar.
    Automatic learning of word pronunciation from data.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), pages S28-29 (addendum), Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 1996.
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National Conference Papers (in Turkish)
  1. İpek Şen, Murat Saraçlar ve Yasemin P. Kahya,
    "Solunum Sisteminin Ek Ses Kaynak Ayrıştırmaya Dayalı Çok Kanallı Akustik Haritalaması",
    BIYOMUT, İzmir, Türkiye, 2009.
  2. D. Can ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Türkçe Haber Bültenlerinin Açık Kaynak Yazılımlar ile Yazılandırılması”,
    IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009.
  3. E. Arısoy ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Türkçe GDSKT için Konuşma Tanıma Hatalarının Analizi”,
    IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009.
  4. E. Dikici ve M. Saraçlar,
    “GKM ve DVM Tabanlı Konuşmacı Doğrulamada Veri Süresi ve Model Büyüklüğüne Dayalı Başarım Analizi”,
    IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009.
  5. P. Santemiz, O. Aran, M. Saraçlar ve L. Akarun,
    “İşaret Dili Videolarından Hizalama ile Ayrık İşaret Çıkarımı”,
    IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009.
  6. S. Yıldırım ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Negatif Olmayan Matris Ayrışımı ile Tek Kanaldan Müzik ve Konuşma Ayırma”,
    IEEE 17. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Side, Antalya, Türkiye, 2009.
  7. T. Aksungurlu, S. Parlak, H. Sak ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Türkçe Haber Bültenleri için Dil Modelleme Yaklaşımlarının Karşılaştırması”,
    IEEE 16. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Didim, Türkiye, 2008.
  8. E. Dikici ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Haber Bültenlerinde Kayan Yazı Tanıma”,
    IEEE 16. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Didim, Türkiye, 2008.
  9. E. Arısoy ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Türkçe Haber Programları İçin Konuşma Tanıma”,
    IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2007.
  10. Ç.K. Akman ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Bilgisayar Destekli Yazılandırma İçin Dil Modelleme”,
    IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2007.
  11. İ. Uzun, E. Arısoy, R. Edizkan ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Dağıtık Yapıda Türkçe Sürekli Konuşma Tanıma Sisteminde Seyrek Paket Kayıplarının Analizi ve Telafisi”,
    IEEE 15. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2007.
  12. E. Arısoy ve M. Saraçlar,
    “Geniş Dağarcıklı Konuşma Tanıma Sistemleri için Örünün Yeniden Değerlendirilmesi Tabanlı Dil Modellemesi Yaklaşımları”,
    IEEE 14. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Konferansı (SİU), Antalya, Türkiye, 2006.
  13. A.A. Alatan, H.T. Bostancı, S. Kıranyaz, N. Çadallı, B. Erdoğan, P.E. Eren, M. Saraçlar ve L. Onural,
    “Nesneye Dayalı Kodlama Uygulaması”,
    3. Sinyal İşleme ve Uygulamaları Kurultayı Bildiriler Kitabı, Kapadokya, Nevşehir, Türkiye, 1995.