Gözde Gül Şahinمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Gözde Gül Şahin is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Koç University's College of Engineering, where she leads research at the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning. She is affiliated with KUIS AI (Koç University Artificial Intelligence Research Center) and serves as Principal Investigator for a major Tübitak-funded project on procedural language understanding. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP) at Technical University of Darmstadt, working with Prof. Iryna Gurevych, and completed her PhD at Istanbul Technical University under the supervision of Prof. Eşref Adalı. Dr. Şahin's research focuses on pushing the boundaries of natural language processing by building machine learning models and open-access tools for world's languages, with particular emphasis on semantics, procedural language understanding, and the abstraction and reasoning capabilities of large language models. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical NLP applications, especially for low-resource and morphologically complex languages like Turkish. She has made significant contributions to multilingual probing frameworks, grammatical error correction for Turkish, and understanding how machines can learn from small data through projects like PuzzLing Machines. Her recent publications reveal a consistent research trajectory toward understanding procedural language and improving model generalizability across domains. She has developed frameworks for evaluating multilingual representations (LINSPECTOR), created benchmarks for Turkish language understanding (Cetvel), and investigated how language models process step-by-step instructions. Her work often addresses the gap between high performance on standard NLP tasks and real-world applicability, with a strong focus on making NLP more accessible for underrepresented languages. Scientific Awards Tübitak 2232 B-International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers (2022) Dr. Şahin actively mentors students, having supervised bachelor's students like Max Eichler (now PhD student at UKP/TU Darmstadt) and pre-doctoral researchers like Haritz Puerto. Her current Tübitak-funded project supports 2 Masters students, 2 PhD students, and one postdoctoral researcher working on "Automatic Learning of Procedural Language from Natural Language Instructions for Intelligent Assistance." She has served as Area Chair for COLING 2022 and organized workshops at major NLP conferences including EMNLP. She leads the GGLab at Koç University, which focuses on developing NLP models and datasets for world's languages, with particular attention to Turkish and other low-resource languages. The lab's work spans multiple dimensions of language understanding, from grammatical error correction (GECTurk) to procedural reasoning and multilingual instruction tuning.
