Successfully defended my MA thesis entitled “Discourse Cohesion and Phonetics in Turkish Sign Language: An Experimental and Computational Approach”. Big thanks to my advisors Kadir Gökgöz, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz and committee members Albert Ali Salah, Didar Akar and Stefano Canalis.

BU Student Conference on Linguistics Student Conference on Linguistics - BOUN is back! Please send your abstract on any area of linguistic research (reviewed by top-tier experts from all over the world). We’d love to see you at Boğaziçi Üni. on May 6-7. linguistlist.org/issues/36/215/ The deadline may be extended.

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Deadline for submitting an abstract to SCOL 2025 has been extended to February 28! Send us your research here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77582/s…

I’ll be at #HSP2025 at the University of Maryland Univ. of Maryland, College Park, to present my MA thesis work on using pose estimation to detect phonetic reduction in Turkish Sign Language from March 27 to 29. Would love to meet and chat if you are in the area!

Can BERT help save endangered languages? Excited to present this paper with baran and Berat Doğan at LM4UC NAACL HLT 2025! We explored how multilingual BERT with augmented data perform POS tagging & NER for Hamshentsnag #NAACL 🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.9/

Had a great time presenting our role reversal work at the #CMCL workshop NAACL HLT 2025 NAACL. Got great feedback too! 🥳 Paper link: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.26…

Low resource does not mean low potential! Had a great time presenting our workshop paper NAACL HLT 2025 on Hamshetsnag POS and NER, showing the importance of including linguistic typology in NLP applications. 🚨 #naacl #NLProc

Yöneylem Araştırmaları'nı Mehmet Hakan Satman hocam o kadar güzel anlattı ki, artık hayatımdaki tüm sorunları 'kısıt' olarak görüyorum. Aşk hayatım bile optimizasyon problemi oldu 💔

Two papers with Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz accepted to AMLaP 2025! 🥰 Both papers report the presence of good-enough parsing effects in Turkish. One focuses on task effects among L1 Turkish speakers and language models, and the other on L2 processing of role reversals.

Mastered it!

YKS sonuçları açıklandığına göre Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Boğaziçi Üni., Dilbilim veya İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümleri özelinde sorular varsa DM’den yardımcı olabilirim. Herkese başarılar, tebrikler!