Research Projects

Active Projects

LifeLU: Understanding the Language of Life (ERC-2022-CoG)

ERC-funded project to identify and characterize language units in protein sequences, advancing molecular language understanding for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

BOUN Treebank

A comprehensive Turkish dependency treebank and the BoAT annotation tool for Turkish NLP research.

TULAP Platform

An accessible and sustainable platform for Turkish Natural Language Processing resources.

Turkish Speech Recognition

Morphology-based language modeling for Turkish automatic speech recognition systems.

Completed Projects

Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion

Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity. The project is led by the Hrant Dink Foundation (HDV) and is a collaboration between HDV, Sabanci University, and Bogazici University.

Chemical Language Processing for Target-based Drug Design

Developing chemical language processing methods for target-based drug design using deep learning approaches.

A Deep Learning based Turkish Dependency Parser

Developing a deep learning based dependency parser for Turkish language.

Contextual Text Mining from the Biomedical Scientific Literature

Developing text mining techniques to automatically extract biologically important information such as relationships between biomolecules from scientific publications.