09:00 - 09:15 | Opening Remarks |
09:15 - 10:00 | SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP
Raphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter 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 When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English
Hasan Can Biyik, Libby Barak, Jing Peng, Anna Feldman
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10:00 - 10:45 | Invited Talk
Mirac Suzgun, Stanford University |
10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | TUNE: A Task For Turkish Machine Unlearning For Data Privacy
Doruk Benli, Ada Canoğlu, Nehir İlkim Gönençer, Dilara Keküllüoğlu 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 Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew
Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned Projection
Muhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan 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 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
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14:00 - 15:30 | TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization
Figen Eğin, Aytuğ Onan SarcasTürk: Turkish Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Dataset
Niyazi Ahmet Metin, Sevde Yılmaz, Osman Enes Erdoğdu, Elif Sude Meydan, Oğul Sümer, Dilara Keküllüoğlu 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 A Morphology-Aware Evaluation of Turkish Syntax in Large Language Models
Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza 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 A Unified Turkic Idiom Understanding Benchmark: Idiom Detection and Semantic Retrieval Across Five Turkic Languages
Gözde Aslantaş, Tunga Gungor Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish News
Umut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky Benchmarking Hate Speech Detection in Azerbaijani with Turkish Cross-Lingual Transfer and Transformer Models
Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification?
Sercan Karakas, Yusuf Şimşek Directed Attention is All You Need: Profiling Style from Limited Text Data
Hüseyin Emir Akdağ 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
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