Volkan Cirik
Computer Science Phd
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I completed my PhD at the Language Technologies Institute of School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I was very fortunate to be advised by Louis-Philippe Morency and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. My Ph.D. was on grounded language understanding – the intersection of natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
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| Feb 28, 2022 | I completed my PhD! |
| Feb 23, 2022 | New paper at ACL2022 on hallucinating objects using language models for language grounding in partially observed environments. |
| Nov 3, 2021 | I gave a talk at NYU CILVR. |
| Jun 9, 2021 | I gave a talk at UMass IESL. |
| Apr 8, 2020 | New paper at ACL2020 on a novel vision-and-language dataset. |
| Sep 2, 2018 | New paper “Speaker-Follower Models for Vision-and-Language Navigation ” at NeurIPS 2018 on navigational instruction following. |
| Mar 1, 2018 | New paper “Visual Referring Expression Recognition: What Do Our Systems Actually Learn?” at NAACL’18 on analyzing referring expression recognition systems. |
| Nov 10, 2017 | New paper at AAAI’18 on leveraging syntax for referring expression recognition! Repository for the code and annotations are available at the github repository! |
| Apr 18, 2017 | New preprint on a new large-scale Q&A dataset! |
| Dec 13, 2016 | New paper on word categories with lexical substitutes at COLING 2016! |
| Nov 18, 2016 | New preprint on understanding curriculum learning for LSTM networks! |
| Sep 23, 2016 |
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