FORA.tv Speaker - Okan Kolak

Okan Kolak is a researcher at Google, working on text analysis and processing within the Book Search project. Before joining Google, Dr. Kolak was a graduate student at University of Maryland College Park, where he received his PhD in Computer Science for contributions to rapid resource transfer for multi-lingual natural language processing. He was a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab, Language and Media Processing Lab, and Center for Automation Research. His research involved statistical modeling and methods, resource acquisition and transfer using parallel corpora, machine translation, information retrieval, and optical character