ABOUT ME
Professional
info
I graduated from Language and Communication Technologies Master's Program (EMLCT) with the distinction 'Cum Laude'. Currently I am based in Nice, France since I worked as a Research Engineer at INRIA Research Center. We worked on the detection of cyberbullying events on social media dataset for different languages. I showed the contribution of emotion and sentiment analysis on the detection of cyberbullying instances.
As a Computational Linguist with Python, I am interested in 'Natural Language Processing' and 'Machine Learning'. I am always open to learn new technical concepts. I love working on languages.
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In my master's thesis, I worked on sentiment classification.
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I am familiar with ML and NLP libraries such as scikit learn, keras, NLTK.
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As a motivated and hardworking person as well as a good team player, I would bring valuable contributions to where I work.
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I gained project management experience in Google since I worked there as a Speech Linguistic Project Manager.
Work
experience
Independent Computational Linguist and Researcher in France and The Netherlands (Remote)
June 2019 - Present
I am working as an Independent Computational Linguist and Researcher based in Europe (France, Netherlands). I provide freelance computational linguistic and language consultancy services to various industrial and research collaborators (e.g. Lionbridge, Unbabel, DefinedCrowd, Babelscape srl).
Some projects which I am involved in:
--> providing services to create high quality textual data.
--> contribution to Turkish WordNet.
--> annotations for offensive words/internet slangs.
--> quality check services.
--> translation quality evaluations.
--> providing high quality speech data (e.g. Alexa).
--> native speaker expertise on the provided speech data.
--> building text classification models by implementing machine/deep learning algorithms.
--> contribution to some shared tasks (SemEval 2020 - Task 12: OffensEval 2020 Identification of Turkish Offensive Language on social media datasets)
Research Engineer at Inria Research Center, Sophia Antipolis, France
March 2018 - June 2019
worked on:
--> Cyberbullying Detection
--> Abusive Language Detection
--> Sentiment Analysis
--> Emotion Analysis
Keywords: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Classification, BullyingDetection, Emotion and Sentiment Analysis
Speech Linguistics Project Manager (Turkish) in Google, Berlin, Germany (via Adecco)
April 2014 - June 2015
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I worked in the team that built Turkish voice for OK Google in collaboration with engineers and researchers in the field of speech technologies, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
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I was based in Google Berlin Office. I regularly collaborated with colleagues in New York, Mountain View, London, Istanbul, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Dublin Google Offices. I was responsible for the recruitment of my teammates to work in Berlin Office and of a professional voice actress to work in Turkey. I was also responsible for quality checks for the work carried out by Vendor Companies.
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More about responsibilities:
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Working on a number of projects towards Speech research (i.e. ASR, TTS).
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Managing a team of Data Evaluators
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Overseeing and managing all work related to achieving high data quality for speech projects in Turkish.
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Training, managing and overseeing the work of my team
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Creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses, numbers
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Creating annotation conventions through RegExp scripting
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Evaluating data quality
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Providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
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Working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using in-house tools
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Linguist (Telecommute) in Appen Language Solutions
December 2012 - May 2013
Phonemic Transcription in Turkish.
English Language Teacher in Multiple Schools
2007 - 2012
Awards
Languages
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Turkish (Native language)
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English (Full professional proficiency)
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Dutch (Flemish, Intermediate level)
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German (Elementary level)
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French (Elementary level)
Key Skills
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Python
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Natural Language Processing
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Project Management
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Language and Communication Technologies
Education
University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Cum Laude)
Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technologies (EMLCT) Master's Programme (2nd year)
2016 - 2017
Master's thesis title: "Using Linguistic Features and External Lexical Resources for Improving Sentence-level Sentiment Classification"
Courses taken:
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Statistics (e.g. SPSS)
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Corpus Linguistics (on Python)
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Semantic Web Technology (e.g. Protege, Ontology building, sparql)
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Linguistic Theory (Syntax and Semantics)
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Learning from Data (Machine Learning on Python; sklearn, keras, gensim)
University of Basque Country, Spain
Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technologies Master's Programme (1st year)
2015 - 2016
Master's thesis title: "Using Linguistic Features and External Lexical Resources for Improving Sentence-level Sentiment Classification"
Courses taken:
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Programming (e.g. Python)
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Computational Linguistics, Morphology, and Syntax (e.g. FOMA, NLTK)
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Artificial Intelligence (e.g. Protege, CLIPs)
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Statistics, Machine Learning (e.g. WEKA) and Corpus Linguistics
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Advanced Semantics
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Computational Logic, Discourse, and Pragmatics (e.g. E-Theorem Prover, Prolog)
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Applications on Language Technologies (i.e. Statistical Machine Translation, Rule Based Translation, Information Retrieval and Extraction, NLP and Education)
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Speech Processing (i.e. Signal Processing, Text to Speech, Automatic Speech Recognition)
Publications
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Corazza, M., Menini, S., Arslan, P., Sprugnoli, R., Cabrio, E., Tonelli, S., & Villata, S. (2018, September). InriaFBK at Germeval 2018: Identifying Offensive Tweets Using Recurrent Neural Networks. In GermEval 2018 Workshop.
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Corazza, M., Menini, S., Arslan, P., Sprugnoli, R., Cabrio, E., Tonelli, S., & Villata, S. (2018, December). Comparing Different Supervised Approaches to Hate Speech Detection. In EVALITA 2018.
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Arslan, P., Corazza, M., Cabrio, E., Villata, S. (2019, April). Overwhelmed by Negative Emotions? Maybe You Are Being Cyber-bullied!. In The 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’19), April 8–12, 2019, Limassol, Cyprus. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297573
