This document is a resume for Canberk Berkin Özdemir summarizing his education, experience, skills, publications and awards. It states that he received a Master's in Computer Science from Concordia University where he developed pipelines and tools for sentiment analysis of tweets. It also lists his Bachelor's from Yildiz Technical University in Computer Science Engineering and relevant internship experience. Technical skills include programming languages like Java, Python and tools like GATE and NLTK. He has published papers in proceedings and participated in SemEval competitions ranking highly.
Undergraduate in computer science and mathematics, with experience in testing, documentation, databases, graphics, programming languages, design patterns, and algorithms; two years experience as a website developer in Java, JavaScript, JSP, and SQL.
The hands-on introductory-level course enables students to learn the basics of Java programming to build desktop applications. The students will learn to use variables, expressions, flow control, loops, array, error handling, writing to a file, reading from a file and more to develop an application!
Undergraduate in computer science and mathematics, with experience in testing, documentation, databases, graphics, programming languages, design patterns, and algorithms; two years experience as a website developer in Java, JavaScript, JSP, and SQL.
The hands-on introductory-level course enables students to learn the basics of Java programming to build desktop applications. The students will learn to use variables, expressions, flow control, loops, array, error handling, writing to a file, reading from a file and more to develop an application!
Presentation at the 11 European Computer Science Summit in Vienna, 12-14th October 2015, ECSS2015
http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2015.html
Using phones for & of oral skills developmentTon Koenraad
Presentation of an exploratory pilot project on using mobile devices for assessment of and for oral EFL skills at the PechaKucha session of the TISLID 2014 conference in Avila, Spain
1. Canberk Berkin Özdemir
Ethemefendi Cad. Avni Bey Apt. No:94 Kat:8 Daire:35
Erenköy Kadıköy/İstanbul
ozdemir.berkin@gmail.com, +90-543-391-5719
OBJECTIVES
Applying and further developing my expertise in any software development area, especially in Natural
Language Processing, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Information Extraction & Retrieval.
EDUCATION
Masters of Computer Science 2012/2015
Concordia University, Montreal / Quebec / Canada
Supervisor : Dr. Sabine Bergler
GPA : 3.93/4.3
Relevant Courses: Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web and Information Retrieval
Bachelors of Computer Science Engineering 2007/2011
Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul/ Turkey
GPA : 2.98/4
EXPERIENCE
2012 – 2015 Research Assistant & NLP Software Developer
CLaC Labs, Concordia University, Montreal
Developed Pipelines & Tools for Sentiment Analysis of Tweets
2013 – 2014 Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor
Concordia University, Montreal
Courses Information Retrieval and Web Search, Discrete Mathematics
05.07.10 - 18.08.10 Summer Intern
Kemik, YTU NLP Group, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul
Advisor Assistant Prof. M. Fatih Amasyalı
Worked on Project Automatic Sentence Generation Using Common Sense Database
17.08.09 - 11.09.09 Summer Intern
TRT (Turkish Radio and Television), Department of IT, Ankara
Advisor Comp. Eng. Deniz Efil
Worked on Introduction to RDF and Semantic Web
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Programming Languages Java, Python, PHP, R, C, C++, Perl, HTML5, CSS3, JSP, JavaScript
Tools and Frameworks GATE, NLTK, Weka, Lucene, SciKit, Git, Hadoop, Django
Operating Systems Linux, Windows, OS X
2. COMPETITIONS
Attended two world class challenges in SemEval 2015 Sentiment Analysis Track with the master
thesis project :
• Task 10 : Sentiment Analysis in Twitter
◦ Ranked 9th
/40
• Task 11 : Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in Twitter
◦ Ranked 1st
/35
LANGUAGES
Turkish (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)
PUBLICATIONS
• Ozdemir, C. B., Bergler, S. (2015, September) A Comparative Study of Different Sentiment
Lexica for Sentiment Analysis of Tweets. In Proceedings of the International Conference on
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2015, in publication).
• Ozdemir, C. B., Bergler, S. (2015, June) CLaC-SentiPipe: SemEval2015 Subtasks 10 B,E, and
Task 11. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Exercises (SemEval-2015).
• Ozdemir, C. B., Diri, B. (2011, June). Web-Ear, an information retrieval system that uses
reported speech expressions in Turkish. In Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications
(INISTA), 2011 International Symposium on (pp. 370-374). IEEE.
• Ozdemir, C. B., Amasyali, M. F. (2010, December). Automatic Sentence Generation Using
Common Sense Databases. INET-TR, 2010. (in Turkish)
AWARDS & HONORS
Bursary of Turkish Prime Ministry 2007-2011
NSERC Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Canada 2012-2014
Dr. T. Radhakrishnan Graduate Bursary in Computer Science 2013-2014
HOBBIES
Orienteering, Tango
MILITARY STATUS
Military service is completed, have no obligation.
References are available upon request