Research Areas
My main research area is Natural Language Processing and the application of Machine Learning techniques into this area. I'm the national representative of CLARIN (an EU FP7 infrastructure project) in Turkey. I'm a member of ACL(Association of Computational Linguistics) and its special interest groups on natural language learning(SIGNLL). I'm also a founding member of the ITU Natural Language Processing Research Group.
Short Bio
Gülşen Eryiğit is a Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey, founder of the ITU Turkish NLP Pipeline (tools.nlp.itu.edu.tr) servicing more than 150 researchers, founding member of the ITU Natural Language Processing Group, member of the ITU Learning from Big Data Group. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. In 2006, she worked as a visiting student researcher at Växjö University, Sweden where she worked in the first ranked team of Conll shared tasks in 2006 and 2007 on multi-lingual dependency parsing. In 2007, she won Siemens Excellence award for her PhD thesis.
Her current research focuses on natural language processing of Turkish. In this field, she acted as a reviewer or co-author of various publications in prestigious journals and conferences. She was the Turkey’s representative in CLARIN (EU 7th Framework Programme, CLARIN - Common language resources and technology infrastructure). Recently, she conducted two research projects: one EU Cost Action project “Parsing Web2.0 Sentences” funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and one national project “Turkish Mobile Personal Assistant” funded by Turkey’s Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. She was the NLP coordinator of one interdisciplinary research project “A Signing Avatar System for Turkish to Turkish Sign Language Machine Translation” funded by TUBITAK. She is serving as a consultant or technical advisor to several companies. She has been a reviewer for many research and industrial proposals for European Commission (H2020 and Cost Action Programs), TUBITAK, Turkey’s Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology and Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Some Selected Professional Activities (for full list)
- ACL 2020, Seattle US, Reviewer.
- Coling 2020, Barcelona, Spain, Review Committee Member.
- MWE workshop at COLING 2020, Barcelona, Program Committee Member.
- MWE workshop at ACL 2019, Florence, Program Committee Member.
- COLING 2018, The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- EMNLP 2017, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017, Program Committee Member.
- MWE 2017 The 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, 2017, Program Committee Member.
- PARSEME 7 (7th General PARSEME Meeting), Dubrovnik, 2016, Program Committee Member.
- TURCLING 2016, 2016, Program Committee Member.
- CICLING 2016, Program Committee Member.
- SEMEVAL 2016, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2016, Reviewer.
- PARSEME 6 (6th General PARSEME Meeting), Struga, Macedonia, 2016, Program Committee Member
- Horizon 2020 Program Research Infrastructures Info Day and Experience Sharing Event (6 January 2016), Panelist, Tubitak, Ankara.
- “Turkish Natural Language Processing and ITU Turkish NLP Pipeline”, Invited Talk at Uppsala University (26 November 2015).
- “Natural Language Processing and Electronic Dictionaries”, Invited Talk (Opening Speech) at II. International Lexicography Symposium: Electronic Dictionaries (03 November 2015), Istanbul, Turkey.
- “Parsing Web2.0 Language and Sentiment Analysis: The case of Turkish”, Invited Talk at Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media: opportunities and challenges for emotion-aware multi agent systems (05 May 2015) ESSEM@AAMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Administrative Duties
- UYZS Technical Infrastructure and Platforms Working Group Member (2022-...)
- ITU Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center Director (2021-...)
- ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department Erasmus Coordinator (2022-...)
- ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Executive Board Member (2020-2023)
- ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department Vice Chair (2020-2022)
- ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Faculty Board Member (2019-2022)
- ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Scholarship Committee Member (2020-2022)
- YZV Curriculum Evaluation and Development Commission Member (2021-2022)
- ITU Appointment and Promotion Criteria Revision Commission Member (2021-2021)
- ITU Publication Committee Member (2020-2021)
- ITU International R&I Cooperations: Due Diligence and Determination of Strategies, Project Coordinator (2020-...)
- ITU Computer Engineering Department Vice Chair (2019-2020)
- ITU - IBU (International Balkan University) Dual-Diploma Computer Engineering Program Coordinator (2019-2020)
- ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Appointment and Promotion Commission - Member (2017-2020)
- Natural Language Processing Group Coordinator (2016-..)
- Language Technologies and Social Robotic Lab. Coordinator (2016-..)
- Public Relations Committee of the Department - Member (2018-2019)
- Computer Engineering Graduate Program PhD Proficiency Board (2015-2018)
- Computer Engineering Dep. Research Lab-2 Coordinator (2015-2016)
- Faculty Board Member (2014-2017)
- Computer Engineering Graduate Program Admission Board (2013-2016)
- ITU-SUNY Binghamton Dual-Diploma Computer Engineering Program Co-Coordinator (2011-2014)
- Public Relations Committee of the Department - Member (2008-2012)
- Social Organizations Commission of the Department - Member (2006 - 2008)
- Natural Language Processing Reading Group - Coordinator (June 2004 - September 2004)
- Representative of the Department’s Research Assistants (December 2004 - January 2006)
- Assessment and Evaluation Commission of the Department - Member (Spring 2004)
- Program Improvement Commission of the Department - Member (Spring 2003)
Recent Publications
Below you will find some recent publications. Please follow this link or google scholar in order to see the full list of publications.
- Berke Oral and Erdem Emekligil and Seçil Arslan and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2019. Extracting complex relations from banking documents. In ECONLP 2019 - 2nd Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing EMNLP-IJCNLP.
- Zahra Azin and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2019. Towards Turkish abstract meaning representation. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 43–47, Florence, Italy, July. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2018. Detecting code-switching between Turkish-English language pair. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 110–115. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Tuğba Pamay and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2018. Turkish Coreference Resolution. In International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, INISTA, Thessaloniki, July
- Gülşen Eryiğit, Cihat Eryiğit, Serpil Karabüklü, Meltem Kelepir, Aslı Özkul, Tuğba Pamay, Dilara Torunoğlu-Selamet, Hatice Köse, 2019. Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish sign language resource: methods, challenges and solutions. Language Resources and Evaluation. (indexed in
SCI-Expanded)
- Umut Sulubacak and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2018. Implementing universal dependency, morphology and multiword
expression annotation standards for Turkish language processing. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering& Computer Sciences, (accepted for publication 9 January 2018 DOI: 10.3906/elk-1706-81):1–23.
- Fatih Samet Çetin and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2017. Türkçe Hedef Tabanlı Duygu Analizi için Alt Görevlerin
İncelenmesi: Hedef Terim, Hedef Kategori ve Duygu Sınıfı Belirleme (Investigation of Aspect Based Turkish
Sentiment Analysis Subtasks- Identification of Aspect Term, Aspect Category and Sentiment Polarity). Bilişim
Teknolojileri Dergisi (kabul tarihi: Aralık 2017), Gazi üniversitesi.
- Joakim Nivre et al. (including Gülşen Eryiğit). 2017. Universal Dependencies 2.1, November. LINDAT/CLARIN
digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Charles University - Corpus - Project code: 15-10472S; Project name: Morphologically and Syntactically
Annotated Corpora of Many Languages
- Mathieu Constant, Gülşen Eryiğit, Johanna Monti, Lonneke van der Plas, Carlos Ramisch and Michael Rosner.
2017. Multiword Expression Processing: A Survey. Computational Linguistics, (accepted for publication 2 June
2017):1–56.
- Gözde Güll İşgüder Şahin, Erdem Emekligil, Seçil Arslan, Onur Ağın and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2017. Relation extraction
via one-shot dependency parsing on inter-sentential, higher-order and nested relations. Turkish Journal of
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, (accepted for publication 13 July 2017):1–23.
- Gökhan Çelikkaya and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2017. Use of NLP Techniques for an Enhanced Mobile Personal Assistant:
The Case of Turkish. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, (accepted for
publication 5 June 2017):1–11.
- Gülşen Eryiğit and Dilara Torunoğlu-Selamet. 2017. Social media text normalization for
Turkish. Natural Language Engineering, (accepted for publication 11 April 2017
doi:10.1017/S1351324917000134):1–41.
- Gökhan Akın Şeker and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2017. Extending a CRF-based named entity recognition model
for Turkish well formed text and user generated content. Semantic Web Journal, doi:10.3233/SW-170253.(bibtex)(pdf)
- Cihat Eryiğit, Hatice Köse, Meltem Kelepir and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2016. Building machine-readable
knowledge representations for Turkish sign language generation. Knowledge-Based Systems,
doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.04.014.(bibtex)(pdf)
- Umut Sulubacak, Memduh Gokirmak, Francis Tyers, Çağrı Çöltekin, Joakim Nivre, and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2016a. Universal dependencies for Turkish. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics , COLING’16, Osaka, Japan, December. (bibtex)(pdf)
- Maria Pontiki, Dimitrios Galanis, Haris Papageorgiou, Ion Androutsopoulos, Suresh Manandhar, Mohammad
AL-Smadi, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Orphée De Clercq, Véronique Hoste, Marianna
Apidianaki, Xavier Tannier, Natalia Loukachevitch, Evgeny Kotelnikov, Nuria Bel, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra
and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2016. SemEval-2016 task 5: Aspect based sentiment analysis. In Proceedings of the 10th
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval’16, San Diego, California, June.(bibtex) (pdf)
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Contact
Address: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Ayazağa Kampüsü, Elektrik-Elektronik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Müh. Bölümü 3303 nolu oda, 34469 İstanbul / Türkiye
Tel: +90 - 212 - 2853503
Fax: +90 - 212 - 2853679
Email: gulsen (dot) cebiroglu @ itu.edu.tr (remove the spaces and replace (dot) with .)
Please send me an email to take an appointment (Weekly schedule)
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