Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit

Prof. Dr. Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit is a Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering under the Faculty of Computer and Informatics. As the founder and director of the ITU Natural Language Processing Group, she leads Turkey's foremost research team in Turkish-language NLP. Her work has achieved global impact through the first software export from ITU in NLP, with 6,000+ Google Scholar citations as of 2023.

• Education:
  • MSc & PhD, Computer Engineering, ITU (2002-2007)
  • BSc, Computer Engineering, Marmara University (1995-2000)
  • High School: Saint-Michel (French curriculum)

Her research focuses on natural language processing for morphologically complex languages like Turkish, with specializations in:

• Dependency parsing and treebank development
• Multilingual transfer learning systems
• Abstract meaning representation
• Language technology infrastructure
• Coreference resolution in agglutinative languages
• Gamification of linguistic education

Recent publications show active research trends in:

• Transforming financial document analysis with BiLSTM-CRF architectures
• Advancing Turkish language models through ViBERTgrid implementations
• Developing multilingual frameworks under EU COST Actions
• Creating semantic search engines for job matching platforms
• Optimizing automotive demand management through dialogue systems
• Building large language models (LLMs) for Turkish

Scientific recognition includes:

• Siemens Excellence Award (2007) for doctoral research
• Above Threshold Award (TÜBİTAK, 2015)
• EU 7th Framework Certificate of Appreciation (2012)
• ITU Thank You Plaque (2017)

Current leadership roles:

• Senior Action Editor, ACL RR
• Director, ITU TÖMER (Turkish Language Teaching Center)
• Coordinator, ITU NLP Group
• Co-Chair, EU UniDive COST Action WG3
• Principal Investigator on 3 active projects