Paper 'Error Analysis of NLP Models and Non-Native Speakers of English Identifying Sarcasm in Reddit Comments' accepted to LREC-Coling 2024 (March 2024)
Paper 'Forged-GAN-BERT: Authorship Attribution for LLM-Generated Forged Novels' accepted to EACL 2024 (March 2024)
Project 'Joint learning of morphology and syntax in Turkish' awarded TUBITAK Project Performance Award (Grant 115E464, January 2022)
Released Turkish Neural NLP Toolkit (December 2021)
Best Paper Award at RepL4NLP workshop (ACL 2018) for 'Characters or Morphemes: How to Represent Words?'
Appointed Senior Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (July 2024)
Associate Editor for Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE)
Editorial board member of Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Organized the 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP) at ACL 2023
Research Experience
Assistant Professor at Hacettepe University (2015–2020)
Reader in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (2020–2022)
Visiting researcher at the University of York (2014)
Visiting researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo (2019)
Currently Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Stirling
Background
Lecturer in Computer Science at the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Scotland
Member of the Data Science and Intelligent Systems Research Group
Research focuses on Natural Language Processing using unsupervised learning techniques, particularly nonparametric Bayesian methods
Specific interests include morphology, syntax, and semantics
Also explores deep learning for representation learning in agglutinative languages