Research Projects

Active Projects

Developing English-Turkish Neural Machine Translation Methods in the Literary Domain

Research project focused on developing neural machine translation methods specifically for literary texts between English and Turkish.

Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology (UniDive)

COST Action focusing on universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology research.

LifeLU: Understanding the Language of Life

ERC Consolidator Grant project aimed at identifying and characterizing the language units in protein sequences.

Completed Projects

Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace

European Commission project boosting collaboration, exchange and solidarity through digital technology.

Developing Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation Corpus and System for Low-Resource Languages

Development of multi-modal neural machine translation corpus and system for low-resource languages.

Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME)

COST Action exploring the future of language in the era of human-machine interaction.

Chemical Language Processing for Target-Based Drug Design

TUBITAK funded project applying language processing techniques for target-based drug design.

Linguistics-supported Turkish Natural Language Processing Platform

Development of a linguistics-supported platform for Turkish natural language processing.

Literary Machine Translation to Produce Translations that Reflect Translators' Style and Generate Retranslations

Research on developing machine translation systems that can capture translator style and produce literary retranslations.

A Deep Learning based Turkish Dependency Parser

Development of a deep learning-based dependency parser for Turkish language.

Contextual Text Mining from the Biomedical Scientific Literature

EU FP7 Marie-Curie project on extracting contextual information from biomedical literature.

Protein-Ligand Database Construction

Construction of a protein-ligand database using text mining techniques.

Named Entity Recognition and Hashtag Segmentation in Social Media Text

Research on named entity recognition and hashtag segmentation for social media text.

Developing an Adaptive Question Answering System for Education

TUBITAK FATIH project developing an adaptive question answering system for students.

Jointly Self-trained Parsers

Research on developing jointly self-trained parsers for natural language processing.

Developing Concept Mining Methods for Turkish Document Analysis

TUBITAK funded project developing concept mining methods for Turkish documents.

Concept Extraction from Turkish Texts by Automatic Methods

BAP funded project on automatic concept extraction from Turkish texts.

Morphology Based Language Modeling for Turkish Speech Recognition

TUBITAK funded research on morphology-based language modeling for Turkish speech recognition systems.

Morphology Based Language Modeling for Turkish Speech Recognition (BAP)

BAP funded project on morphology-based language modeling for Turkish speech recognition.

Developing Structure-preserving and Query-biased Automated Summarization Methods for Web Search Engines

BAP funded project on automated summarization methods for web search engines.

Developing a General-Purpose Turkish Handwritten Recognition System using a Large Lexicon

BAP funded project on Turkish handwritten character recognition.

Developing Natural Language Processing-based Methods for Text Classification

BAP funded project on NLP-based text classification methods.

Morphotactic based Statistical Language Modeling for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems

BAP funded project on morphotactic-based language modeling for speech recognition.

Developing Dynamic and Adaptive Methods for Turkish Spam Filtering

BAP funded project on spam filtering methods for Turkish emails.

Statistical Analysis of Turkish

BAP funded pioneering project on statistical processing of Turkish language.