Ahmet Cüneyd TantuğView profile
Associate Professor
Ahmet Cüneyd Tantuğ is an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering at the Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He has been a core faculty member since 2007 and is among the founders of the ITU Natural Language Processing Group. He has held key administrative roles, including Vice Dean (2011–2015) and Head of IT Department at ITU (2012–2020). BSc, MSc, PhD: Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering Guest Researcher: University of Copenhagen, Centre for Language Technology (2006–2007) Dr. Tantuğ’s research spans artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning, with a focus on Turkish and other agglutinative languages. His work includes named entity recognition, dependency parsing, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and text normalization. He has developed linguistic resources for Turkish and low-resource languages such as Amharic, and has contributed to financial AI and temporal expression extraction. His recent publications highlight advancements in Turkish NLP, including optimal vocabulary sizing, tokenization granularity for LLMs, and transformer-based models for named entity recognition. He has led multiple research projects funded by TÜBİTAK, the European Union, and the Ministry of Development. Scientific awards include: Bedri Karafakioğlu Special Award (2000) Siemens Excellence Award (2007) TeknoGirişim Sermaye Desteği Ödülü (2010) He has supervised numerous master’s and PhD students, with theses on topics such as dependency parsing, named entity recognition, and text normalization. He has also served as a consultant for private sector projects in banking, software, and telecommunications, and as a referee for TÜBİTAK, TEYDEB, and the Ministry of Industry and Technology. Dr. Tantuğ leads and participates in active research projects including Turkish text normalization from user-generated content and improving dependency parsing with augmented features. He is a founding member of the ITU Natural Language Processing Group, which continues to be a central hub for NLP research in Turkey.










