Kadri Hacioglu

Also published as: K. Hacioglu


2025

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Zero-shot Slot Filling in the Age of LLMs for Dialogue Systems
Mansi Rana | Kadri Hacioglu | Sindhuja Gopalan | Maragathamani Boothalingam
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track

Zero-shot slot filling is a well-established subtask of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). However, most existing methods primarily focus on single-turn text data, overlooking the unique complexities of conversational dialogue. Conversational data is highly dynamic, often involving abrupt topic shifts, interruptions, and implicit references that make it difficult to directly apply zero-shot slot filling techniques, even with the remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs). This paper addresses these challenges by proposing strategies for automatic data annotation with slot induction and black-box knowledge distillation (KD) from a teacher LLM to a smaller model, outperforming vanilla LLMs on internal datasets by 26% absolute increase in F1 score. Additionally, we introduce an efficient system architecture for call center product settings that surpasses off-the-shelf extractive models by 34% relative F1 score, enabling near real-time inference on dialogue streams with higher accuracy, while preserving low latency.

2009

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Generating Synthetic Children’s Acoustic Models from Adult Models
Andreas Hagen | Bryan Pellom | Kadri Hacioglu
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

2005

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Detection of Entity Mentions Occuring in English and Chinese Text
Kadri Hacioglu | Benjamin Douglas | Ying Chen
Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Semantic Role Labeling Using Different Syntactic Views
Sameer Pradhan | Wayne Ward | Kadri Hacioglu | James Martin | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’05)

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Semantic Role Chunking Combining Complementary Syntactic Views
Sameer Pradhan | Kadri Hacioglu | Wayne Ward | James H. Martin | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005)

2004

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Semantic Role Labeling Using Dependency Trees
Kadri Hacioglu
COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Shallow Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
Sameer S. Pradhan | Wayne H. Ward | Kadri Hacioglu | James H. Martin | Dan Jurafsky
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

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A Lightweight Semantic Chunker Based on Tagging
Kadri Hacioglu
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

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Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks
Mona Diab | Kadri Hacioglu | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers

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Semantic Role Labeling by Tagging Syntactic Chunks
Kadri Hacioglu | Sameer Pradhan | Wayne Ward | James H. Martin | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2004) at HLT-NAACL 2004

2003

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Target Word Detection and Semantic Role Chunking using Support Vector Machines
Kadri Hacioglu | Wayne Ward
Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Short Papers

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Question Classification with Support Vector Machines and Error Correcting Codes
Kadri Hacioglu | Wayne Ward
Companion Volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003 - Short Papers

2001

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On Combining Language Models: Oracle Approach
Kadri Hacioglu | Wayne Ward
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research

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University of Colorado Dialogue Systems for Travel and Navigation
B. Pellom | W. Ward | J. Hansen | R. Cole | K. Hacioglu | J. Zhang | X. Yu | S. Pradhan
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research