SIGTURK 2026 Workshop - Accepted papers

  1. SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP
    Raphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter

  2. Directed Attention is All You Need: Profiling Style from Limited Text Data
    Hüseyin Emir Akdağ

  3. TUNE: A Task For Turkish Machine Unlearning For Data Privacy
    Doruk Benli, Ada Canoğlu, Nehir İlkim Gönençer, Dilara Keküllüoğlu

  4. A Unified Turkic Idiom Understanding Benchmark: Idiom Detection and Semantic Retrieval Across Five Turkic Languages
    Gözde Aslantaş, Tunga Gungor

  5. TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization
    Figen Eğin, Aytuğ Onan

  6. SarcasTürk: Turkish Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Dataset
    Niyazi Ahmet Metin, Sevde Yılmaz, Osman Enes Erdoğdu, Elif Sude Meydan, Oğul Sümer, Dilara Keküllüoğlu

  7. Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish News
    Umut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky

  8. Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew
    Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo

  9. A Morphology-Aware Evaluation of Turkish Syntax in Large Language Models
    Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza

  10. Benchmarking Hate Speech Detection in Azerbaijani with Turkish Cross-Lingual Transfer and Transformer Models
    Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky

  11. When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English
    Hasan Can Biyik, Libby Barak, Jing Peng, Anna Feldman

  12. TurkBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Turkish Large Language Models
    Cagri Toraman, Ahmet Kaan Sever, Ayşe Aysu Cengiz, Elif Ecem Arslan, Görkem Sevinç, Sarp Kantar, Mete Mert Birdal, Yusuf Faruk Güldemir, Ali Buğra Kanburoğlu, Sezen Felekoğlu, Birsen Şahin Kütük, Büşra Tufan, Elif Genç, Serkan Coşkun, Gupse Ekin Demir, Muhammed Emin Arayıcı, Olgun Dursun, Onur Gungor, Susan Üsküdarlı, Abdullah Topraksoy, Esra Darıcı

  13. BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish
    Burak Aktaş, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Süha Kağan Köse, Ömer İlbilgi, Elif Özge Yılmaz, Cagri Toraman, Bilge Kaan Görür

  14. Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies
    Cagri Coltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova, Gulnura Dzhumalieva, Aida Kasieva, Nikolett Mus, Jonathan Washington

  15. RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish
    Süha Kağan Köse, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Burak Aktaş, Bilge Kaan Görür, Evren Ayberk Munis, Deniz Yılmaz, Muhammed Yusuf Kartal, Cagri Toraman

  16. OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for Turkish
    Deniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman, Süha Kağan Köse, Burak Aktaş, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Bilge Kaan Görür

  17. Building a Turkish Large Language Model via Continual Pre-Training and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation
    Alperen Enes Bayar, Mert Ege, Gökhan Yurtalan, Alper Karamanlioglu, Berkan Demirel, Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

  18. From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification?
    Sercan Karakas, Yusuf Şimşek

  19. Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned Projection
    Muhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan

  20. Overview of the SIGTURK 2026 Shared Task: Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts
    Ali Gebeşçe, Abdulfattah Safa, Ege Uğur Amasya, Gözde Gül Şahin