Volkan Cirik
Computer Science Phd Student.

GHC 5713
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
I am a first second third fourth fifth year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute of School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I am very fortunate to be advised by Louis-Philippe Morency and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. I am a member of MultiComp Lab and Berg Lab. I interned at Facebook AI with Douwe Kiela, Google AI with Jason Baldridge, and Amazon Alexa with François Mairesse
. Previously, I worked with Ed Hovy and Teruko Mitamura at CMU. Before CMU, I was a member of Deniz Yuret’s AI-LAB. I am interested in grounded language learning and understanding.
news
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 |
I switched to al-folio theme of Jekyll for my website ![]() |