SIGTURK 2024 Workshop
Proceedings: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.sigturk-1/
Introduction
We are excited to announce the First Annual Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages, held in conjunction with Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Bangkok, Thailand. Our primary aim is to provide a new venue to foster research on computational linguistics in Turkic languages. By co-locating with ACL, we seek to facilitate interaction among researchers from diverse backgrounds, encouraging the exchange of ideas and the presentation of cutting-edge work in natural language processing (NLP) specific to Turkic languages.
The main objectives of the workshop are:
To construct and present a wide array of methodology and know-how, including foundational work for formulation and analysis of NLP models suitable for Turkic language processing.
To provide a better understanding of how Turkic language typology may impact the applicability of current methods and motivate the development of novel methods that are more generic or competitive in Turkic languages
Preparation of new corpora and resources in under-studied Turkic languages
To build infrastructure by means of software libraries and benchmarks for developing NLP models that would accelerate progress in the field
Promote collaborations across scientists from across the world that have specific interests in the study of computational linguistics in Turkic languages.
By supporting collaborations across research groups working on machine learning, Turkic linguistics, and real-life applications of NLP tasks in various languages, the ultimate goal of the workshop is to enlarge connections across our community and allow rapid development of NLP methods and tools that are applicable to a wide range of Turkic languages.
Important dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
First Call for Papers | February 9, 2024 (Friday) |
Second Call for Papers | March 4, 2024 (Monday) |
Announcement of Deadline Extension | May 31, 2024 (Monday) |
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline | June 18, 2024 (Tuesday) |
Notification of Acceptance | June 24, 2024 (Monday) |
Camera-ready Papers Due | July 1, 2024 (Monday) |
Workshop Date | August 15, 2024 (Thursday) |
Topics of interest
We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Computational linguistics: models of all aspects of linguistics in Turkic languages (e.g., semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology)
Systems: Case studies on the construction of NLP systems for Turkic languages
Evaluation: Understanding the applicability of current NLP methods in Turkic languages
Metrics: New metrics and measures for evaluating NLP systems suitable to Turkic languages
Learning from sparse data: Novel methods for learning from small or sparse data in Turkic languages
Resources: Datasets, benchmarks, and software libraries for NLP models in Turkic languages
Note: All deadlines are 23:59 GMT (same as UTC-0).
Invited speakers
Gözde Gül Şahin, Koç University
Elmurod Kuriyozov, University of A Coruña
Lütfi Kerem Senel, Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich
Program
| Time | |
|---|---|
09:00-09:10 | Opening remarks |
09:10-10:00 | Invited talk by Gözde Gül Şahin |
10:00-10:30 | Invited talk by Lütfi Kerem Şenel |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-12:30 | Oral session 1: |
11:00-11:15 | Do LLMs Speak Kazakh? A Pilot Evaluation of Seven Models. Akylbek Maxutov, Ayan Myrzakhmet, Pavel Braslavski |
11:20-11:35 | Unsupervised Learning of Turkish Morphology with Multiple Codebook VQ-VAE. Müge Kural, Deniz Yuret |
11:40-11:55 | Open foundation models for Azerbaijani language. Jafar Isbarov, Kavsar Huseynova, Elvin Mammadov, Mammad Hajili, Duygu Ataman |
12:00-12:15 | ImplicaTR: A Granular Dataset for Natural Language Inference and Pragmatic Reasoning in Turkish. Mustafa Kürşat Halat, Ümit Atlamaz |
12:20-12:35 | A coreference corpus of Turkish situated dialogs. Faruk Büyüktekin, Umut Özge |
12:35-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-14:50 | Oral session 2: |
13:30-13:45 | Intelligent Tutor to Support Teaching and Learning of Tataar. Alsu Zakirova, Jue Hou, Anisia Katinskaia, Anh-Duc Vu, Roman Yangarber |
13:50-14:05 | Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Context. Metehan Oğuz, Yusuf Umut Ciftci, Yavuz Faruk Bakman |
14:10-14:25 | Turkish Delights: a Dataset on Turkish Euphemisms. Hasan Can Biyik, Patrick Lee, Anna Feldman |
14:30-14:45 | Towards a Clean Text Corpus for Ottoman Turkish. Fatih Burak Karagöz, Berat Doğan, Şaziye Betül Özateş |
14:50-15:30 | Invited talk by Elmurod Kuriyozov |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-17:00 | Poster session (non-archival and Findings papers) |
Robust Automated Spelling Correction with Deep Ensembles Jafar Isbarov, Kavsar Huseynova, SAMIR RUSTAMOV | |
GECTurk: Grammatical Error Correction and Detection Dataset for Turkish. Atakan Kara, Farrin Sofian, Andrew Bond, Gözde Gül Şahin | |
Benchmarking Procedural Language Understanding for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Turkish. Arda Uzunoglu, Gözde Gül Şahin | |
TurkishMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Turkish. Arda Yüksel, Abdullatif Köksal, Lütfi Kerem Şenel, Anna Korhonen, Hinrich Schuetze | |
Bridging the Bosphorus: Advancing Turkish Large Language Models through Strategies for Low-Resource Language Adaptation and Benchmarking. Emre Can Acikgoz, Mete Erdogan, Deniz Yuret | |
Phonotactics as an Aid in Low Resource Loan Word Detection and Morphological Analysis in Sakha. Petter Mæhlum, Sardana Ivanova | |
TURNA: A Turkish Encoder-Decoder Language Model for Enhanced Understanding and Generation. Gökçe Uludoğan, Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal, Furkan Akkurt, Melikşah Türker, Onur Güngör, Susan Üsküdarlı | |
17:05-17:45 | Panel discussion: Kemal Oflazer, Deniz Yüret, Gözde G. Şahin |
17:45-17:50 | Closing |
Awards
Honorable Mentions:
Do LLMs Speak Kazakh? A Pilot Evaluation of Seven Models. Akylbek Maxutov, Ayan Myrzakhmet, Pavel Braslavski.
Open foundation models for Azerbaijani language. Jafar Isbarov, Kavsar Huseynova, Elvin Mammadov, Mammad Hajili, Duygu Ataman.
Best Paper:
Intelligent Tutor to Support Teaching and Learning of Tatar. Alsu Zakirova, Jue Hou, Anisia Katinskaia, Anh-Duc Vu, Roman Yangarber.
Diversity and inclusion statement
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our community.
Workshop format
The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format, with both an in-person component and virtual participation options.
Registration
Details regarding registration can be found on the main conference website.
Venue
The workshop will be held at Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Further details TBA.
Program committee
Askar Aituov, Google for Developers
Necva Bölücü, CSIRO
Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen
Ebru Ersöyleyen, Middle East Technical University
Orhan Fırat, Google Deepmind
Omer Goldman, Bar-Ilan University
Mammad Hajili, Microsoft
Rasul Karimov, Sharechat
Bekhzod Khoshimov, UW-Madison
Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich
Murathan Kurfalı, Stockholm University
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University
Aziza Mirsaidova, Microsoft
Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, Monic AI
Saliha Muradoğlu, Australian National University
Fırat Öter, Middle East Technical University
Arzucan Özgür, Bogaziçi University
Adnan Öztürel, Google
Gözde Gül Şahin, Koç University
Francis Tyers, Indiana University
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Organizing committee
Duygu Ataman, New York University
Deniz Zeyrek Bozşahin, Middle East Technical University
Mehmet Oguz Derin (Publications Chair)
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki (Program Chair)
Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich
Jonne Sälevä, Brandeis University (Program Chair)
Contact information
Submission Portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTURK
Official Website: https://sigturk.github.io/workshop
More information
For further details and updates, please visit our workshop website: https://sigturk.com/workshop