

Şeniz DEMİR
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
MEF University
Address:
Ayazaga Cd. No: 4, Maslak/Istanbul TURKEY
Room: 535
Phone: +90-212-395 0000
Email: demirse-at-mef.edu.tr
EXPERIENCE
2017-2023
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering, MEF University
2011-2017
Senior/Chief Researcher
TUBITAK-BILGEM
2004-2010
Teaching/Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, Univ. of Delaware
2000-2004
Teaching/Research Assistant
Department of Computer Engineering, Yeditepe University
RESEARCH
Current Work
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Neural Language Generation
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Natural Language Understanding
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Dialogue Systems
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Question Answering
Interests
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Natural Language Generation/Processing
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Accessibility Systems/Assistive Technologies
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Dialogue Management
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Artificial Intelligence
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Deep Learning
Previous Work
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Language Generation
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Accessibility for Visually Impaired
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Paraphrase Identification
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Text Normalization
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Coreference Resolution
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Word Polarity/Sentiment Classification
Research Projects
Project Coordinator:
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Turkish Natural Language Generation via Recurrent Neural Networks, TUBITAK-3501, 2018-2020 ShenGenLab@MEF
Researcher:
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Turkish Text Analysis Tools, TUBITAK Internal Project, 2015-2017
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B3Lab: Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Laboratory, TUBITAK Internal Project, 2013‐2015
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MULTISAUND: Multilingualism Integrated to Speech and Audio Understanding, TUBITAK FP7 REGPOT Regional Potential, 2011‐2013
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Multimodal Access to Information Graphics, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), 2008‐2010
Journals
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Seniz Demir and Hanifi Ibrahim Akdag. "Mention Detection in Turkish Coreference Resolution", Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2024 (accepted).
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Seniz Demir. "Neural Coreference Resolution for Turkish", Journal of Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications (JISTA), 6(1), pp. 85-95, 2023.
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Seniz Demir. "Turkish Data-to-Text Generation Using Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Networks", ACM Transactions On Asian and Low-resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 22(2), pp. 1-27, 2023 (SCI-Expanded).
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Seniz Demir and Seza Oktem. "A Benchmark Dataset for Turkish Data-To-Text Generation", Computer Speech and Language, 77, 2023 (SCI-Expanded).
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Seniz Demir and Berkay Topcu. "Graph-based Turkish Text Normalization and Its Impact on Noisy Text Processing", Engineering Science and Technology (JESTECH), 35, 2022 (SCI-Expanded).
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Gizem Aras, Didem Makaroglu, Seniz Demir, and Altan Cakir. "An Evaluation of Recent Neural Sequence Tagging Models in Turkish Named Entity Recognition", Expert Systems with Applications, 182, 2021 (SCI-Expanded).
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Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Kathleen F. McCoy, Seniz Demir, Peng Wu, Charles Greenbacker, Daniel Chester, Edward Schwartz, David Oliver, and Priscilla Moraes. "Access to Multimodal Articles for Individuals with Sight Impairments", ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2(4), 2012 (SCI-Expanded).
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Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Summarizing Information Graphics Textually", Computational Linguistics, 38(3), pp. 527‐574, 2012. (SCI-Expanded)
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Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Daniel Chester. "Interactive SIGHT: Textual Access to Simple Bar Charts", The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Special Issue: Web Accessibility, 16(3), pp. 245‐279, 2010. (SCI-Expanded)
Book Chapters
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Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Richard Burns, Peng Wu, Daniel Chester, and Seniz Demir. "Information Graphics in Multimodal Documents" , Advances in Video, Audio, and Imagery Analysis for Search, Data Mining, Surveillance, and Authoring (ed M. T. Maybury), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 235‐252, 2012.
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Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "Bar Charts in Popular Media: Conveying Their Message to Visually Impaired Users via Speech", Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Advances in Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, Volume 265, pp. 275‐298, 2010.
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Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. "Issues in Realizing the Overall Message of a Bar Chart", Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, John Benjamins, Volume 5, pp. 311‐320, 2009.
Conference Proceedings
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Seniz Demir. "What Word Embeddings Tell Us About Turkish Coreference Resolution", In Proc. of International Conference on Informatics and Computer Science (ICI-CS'2022), pp. 39-45.
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Artun Burak Mecik, Volkan Ozer, Batuhan Bilgin, Tuna Cakar, Seniz Demir. "Neural language generation for a Turkish task-oriented dialogue system", In Proc. of ECAI'2020‐ Workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation (IntelLang), pp. 51-61.
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Uluc Furkan Vardar, Ilkay Tevfik Devran, Seniz Demir. "An XML parser for Turkish Wikipedia", In Proc. of SIU'2019.
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Seniz Demir. "Context Tailoring for Text Normalization", In Proc. of NAACL'2016‐ Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, pp. 6‐14.
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Seniz Demir, Murat Tan, and Berkay Topcu. "Turkish Normalization Lexicon for Social Media", In Proc. of CICLING'2016.
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Seniz Demir. "Generating Valence Shifted Turkish Sentences", In Proc. of INLG'2014, pp.128‐132.
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Canan Girgin, Hayati Gonultas, F. Canan Pembe Muhtaroglu, Seniz Demir, Ahmet Afsin Akin, and Murat Obali. "Language based web crawling on big data", In Proc. of SIU'2014.
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F. Canan Pembe Muhtaroglu, Seniz Demir, Murat Obali, and Canan Girgin. "Business Model Canvas Perspective on Big Data Applications", In Proc. of IEEE Big Data Workshop on Big Data and Society'2013, pp.32‐37.
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Seniz Demir, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout, and Erdem Unal. "A Case Study Towards Turkish Paraphrase Alignment", In Proc. of ENLG'2013, pp. 188‐192.
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Seniz Demir, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Richard Burns, and Sandra Carberry. "What is Being Measured in an Information Graphic?", In Proc. of CICLING'2013, pp. 501‐512.
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Seniz Demir, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Erdem Unal, and Hamza Kaya. "Turkish Paraphrase Corpus", In Proc. of LREC'2012, pp. 4087‐4091.
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Charles Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy, Stephanie Elzer, David McDonald, Daniel Chester, and Seniz Demir. "Improving the Accessibility of Line Graphs in Multimodal Documents", In Proc. of EMNLP'2011 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), pp.52‐62.
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Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Interactive SIGHT Demo: Textual Summaries of Simple Bar Charts", Demo Paper, In Proc. of ASSETS'2010, pp. 267‐268.
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Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "A Discourse-Aware Graph Based Content-Selection Framework", In Proc. of INLG'2010, pp, 11‐25.
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Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Interactive SIGHT into Information Graphics", In Proc. of W4A, 2010.
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Seniz Demir. "TAIG: Textually Accessible Information Graphics", In Proc. of ASSETS'2008, pp. 313‐314. (Extended Abstract)
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Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. "Generating Textual Summaries of Bar Charts", In Proc. of INLG'2008, pp. 7‐15.
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Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "Accessible Bar Charts for Visually Impaired Users", In Proc. of TELEHEALTH/AT'2008, pp. 55‐60.
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Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, and Stephanie Elzer. "Effectively Realizing the Inferred Message of an Information Graphic", In Proc. of RANLP'2007, pp. 150‐156.
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Stephanie Elzer, Edward Schwartz, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, and Peng Wu. "A Browser Extension for Providing Visually Impaired Users Access to the Content of Bar Charts on the Web", In Proc. of WEBIST'2007, pp. 59‐66.
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Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Seniz Demir. "Information Graphics: An Untapped Resource for Digital Libraries", In Proc. of SIGIR'2006, pp. 581‐588.
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Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, and Seniz Demir. "Communicative Signals as the Key to Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts", In Proc. of DIAGRAMS'2006, pp. 25‐39. (Best Paper Award)
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Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Ingrid Zukerman, Daniel Chester, Nancy Green, and Seniz Demir. "A Probabilistic Framework for Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of IJCAJ'2005, pp, 1042‐1047.
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Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Seniz Demir, Nancy Green, and Ingrid Zukerman. "Exploring and Exploiting the Limited Utility of Captions in Recognizing Intention in Information Graphics", In Proc. of ACL'2005, pp.223‐230.
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C. Cem Say, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Seniz Demir, and Fatih Ogun. "A Natural Language Processing Infrastructure for Turkish", In Proc. of COLING'2004, pp. 1385‐1391.
PUBLICATIONS
2004-2010
PHD
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
2000-2003
MSc
Department of Computer Engineering
Bogazici University
1996-2000
BSc
Department of Computer Engineering
Marmara University
EDUCATION
Undergraduate@MEF
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing
FALL, 2020-2023
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Automata Theory and Formal Languages
FALL, 2017-2023
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Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics
SPRING, 2018-2023
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Operating Systems
SPRING, 2018-2023
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Systems Programming
FALL, 2017-2019
Graduate@MEF
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Natural Language Processing
SPRING, 2018-2023
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Natural Language Generation and Dialogue Systems
FALL 2023
Undergraduate@Marmara
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File Organization
FALL- 2000