Şaziye Betül Özateş is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Boğaziçi University, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning. She holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University, where she was advised by Dr. Arzucan Özgür and Dr. Tunga Güngör. Previously, she was a researcher at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Natural Language Processing and a post-doctoral fellow at KUIS AI Center focusing on procedural language learning from natural instructions. Her research interests include natural language processing, computational linguistics, syntactic analysis, and deep learning. She has developed several influential resources, including the BOUN Treebank (9,761 syntactically annotated Turkish sentences), IMST Treebank, and PUD Treebank. Her tools such as BOUN-Pars (a Turkish dependency parser) and the semi-supervised deep dependency parser support morphological and dependency analysis for agglutinative and code-switched languages. Her recent work focuses on historical Turkish NLP, Ottoman Turkish corpus construction, and multilingual BERT-based dependency parsing. She has contributed to code-switching NLP, semi-supervised learning techniques, and sentence similarity kernels for summarization. Her publications span 2016–2025, emphasizing treebanking, parsing optimization, and low-resource language challenges. Key projects include the NakbaTR dataset for Turkish NER, Arabic calligraphy text extraction, and dementia caregiver detection via social media analysis. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical tools, making Turkish NLP resources accessible for global research.








