--- title: "Gokhan Tur — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Gokhan Tur, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2026), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gokhan Tur # Gokhan Tur Gokhan Tur has 4 papers in our library, in 2018–2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/), [Bing Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-liu/), [Pararth Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pararth-shah/). 4 papers in our library · 2018–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5087941479) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7740-2557) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5087941479) · [222 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087941479) · [7,925 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087941479&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 202 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3733](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3733) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Gokhan+Tur) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gokhan+Tur) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gokhan+Tur) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gokhan+Tur) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1999–2011 · 38 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2010–2017 · 36 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 2002–2018 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2025 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers** Piscataway · United States 2010–2014 · 14 papers](https://ror.org/01n002310) · [🎓**Bilkent University** Ankara · Türkiye 1997–2001 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bilkent-university/) · [🏢**Uber AI** San Francisco · United States 2018–2020 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/05vm0ed18) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2018 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**RWTH Aachen University** Aachen · Germany 2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-gbc-gradient-based-connections-optimizing/) · [**2020** 1 paper Can You be More Social? Injecting Politeness and Positivity into Task-Oriented Conversational Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-more-social-injecting-politeness-positivity/) ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers Gokhan Tur's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2018-dialogue-learning-human-teaching-feedback/)** *(2018 · 212 citations)* Task-oriented dialogue agents are often pre-trained with supervised learning on dialogue corpora and then refined with reinforcement learning (RL) from user feedback. 2. **[Bootstrapping a Neural Conversational Agent with Dialogue Self-Play, Crowdsourcing and On-Line Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2018-bootstrapping-neural-conversational-agent-dialogue/)** *(2018 · 181 citations)* The paper addresses a practical obstacle for task-oriented conversational agents. End-to-end neural models need large annotated dialogue corpora, which are costly to build for every new domain. Wizard-of-Oz collection also often misses dialogue flows a developer expects the agent to handle. 3. **[Can You be More Social? Injecting Politeness and Positivity into Task-Oriented Conversational Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-more-social-injecting-politeness-positivity/)** *(2020 · 10 citations)* Task-oriented dialogue systems are usually built to deliver correct content and mostly ignore the social side of language. 4. **[GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-gbc-gradient-based-connections-optimizing/)** *(2026)* LLM-based multi-agent systems often fail to beat strong single-agent setups. One key reason is that when the final answer is wrong, it is hard to tell which agent or which interaction step caused the error. Existing optimizers mostly use only overall task success as feedback. The authors propose Gradient-Based… ## All works 10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2018-dialogue-learning-human-teaching-feedback/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Bing Liu, Gokhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, et al.*2018 · 212 citations* 2. **[Bootstrapping a Neural Conversational Agent with Dialogue Self-Play, Crowdsourcing and On-Line Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2018-bootstrapping-neural-conversational-agent-dialogue/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Pararth Shah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Bing Liu, et al.*2018 · 181 citations* 3. **[AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01448) arXiv:2208.01448 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Saleh Soltan et al.*2022 · 83 citations* 4. **[Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.605/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Emre Can Acikgoz et al.*2025 · 13 citations* 5. [**Can You be More Social? Injecting Politeness and Positivity into Task-Oriented Conversational Agents arXiv:2012.14653**Yi-Chia Wang, Alexandros Papangelis, Runze Wang, et al.*2020 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-more-social-injecting-politeness-positivity/) 6. **[Tagging English by Path Voting Constraints](https://aclanthology.org/P98-2208/) 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Gökhan Tür, Kemal Oflazer*1998 · 9 citations* 7. **[Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI](https://aclanthology.org/2026.tacl-1.38/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Shuhaib Mehri et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 8. **[Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.623/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Cheng Qian et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 9. **[Prior Beliefs Prejudice LLM-as-Judge: Evidence from Persuasion Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2087/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Pardis Sadat Zahraei et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 10. **[GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-gbc-gradient-based-connections-optimizing/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) ×3 - [Bing Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-liu/) ×2 - [Pararth Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pararth-shah/) ×2 - [Alexandros Papangelis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandros-papangelis/) - [Yi-Chia Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-chia-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ×2: [NAACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2018/) ×2 - Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×2 - 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 2 - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 202 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/cited-by/). 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