CCC Seminar by Prof Gülşen Eryiğit, faculty of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University, coordinator of ITU Natural Language Processing Group, and the director of ITU TÖMER (Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center).
Abstract
Natural language processing (NLP) has made remarkable progress in recent years, yet many of its most celebrated models and methods remain shaped by the structure and resources of Indo-European languages. This seminar examines the unique linguistic and computational challenges presented by agglutinative and morphologically rich languages such as Turkish, where high morphological variability, extensive affixation, and productive derivation complicate core NLP tasks including tokenization, morphology analysis, syntactic parsing, semantic representation, and downstream applications like information extraction and text understanding. The talk also offers a brief overview of the broader research agenda and key publications in this area.
Short Bio
Gülşen Eryiğit is a faculty of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University, the coordinator of ITU Natural Language Processing Group, and the director of ITU TÖMER (Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center). She is the top-cited researcher in Turkey in NLP and listed in Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings career-long impact category. She received her master’s and PhD degrees from ITU Computer Engineering Department in 2002 and 2007. She has worked as a referee and author in many prestigious journals and conferences on NLP. She has worked as a coordinator or researcher in many scientific projects funded by EU, Tubitak, and the Ministry of Industry and Technology, and as a consultant in several industrial R&D projects funded by EU and Tubitak TEYDEB. She also acts as a project evaluator and observer for these funding agencies. She owns two issued patents. She is the person who realized the first software export from the ITU Technology transfer office. She is actively a management committee member in the European Cost Action UNIDIVE where she co-chairs the work package on “Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Language Technology”. She prioritizes the development of local technologies and has been actively involved in R&D projects on language technologies with various institutional firms in Turkey through university-industry collaboration.
When: 20/02/26 , h 11.00
Where: Sala Conferenze – 3rd floor