Onur Keleş
@Onr_Kls
PhD student of Linguistics, Research Assistant @UniBogazici | Interested in visual-gestural modality, quantitative linguistics and NLP
YKS sonuçları açıklandığına göre Boğaziçi Üniversitesi @UniBogazici, Dilbilim veya İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümleri özelinde sorular varsa DM’den yardımcı olabilirim. Herkese başarılar, tebrikler!

Two papers with @dinctopal_deniz accepted to AMLaP 2025! 🥰 Both papers report the presence of good-enough parsing effects in Turkish. One focuses on task effects among L1 Turkish speakers and language models, and the other on L2 processing of role reversals.

Yöneylem Araştırmaları'nı @mhsatman hocam o kadar güzel anlattı ki, artık hayatımdaki tüm sorunları 'kısıt' olarak görüyorum. Aşk hayatım bile optimizasyon problemi oldu 💔
Low resource does not mean low potential! Had a great time presenting our workshop paper @naaclmeeting on Hamshetsnag POS and NER, showing the importance of including linguistic typology in NLP applications. 🚨 #naacl #NLProc
Can BERT help save endangered languages? Excited to present this paper with @lambdabstract and @BeratDogan03 at LM4UC @naaclmeeting! We explored how multilingual BERT with augmented data perform POS tagging & NER for Hamshentsnag #NAACL 🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.9/
Had a great time presenting our role reversal work at the #CMCL workshop @naaclmeeting @naacl. Got great feedback too! 🥳 Paper link: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.26…
Are your LLMs good-enough? 🤔 Our new paper w/ @dinctopal_deniz at #CMCL2025 @naaclmeeting shows both humans & smaller LLMs do good-enough parsing in Turkish role-reversal contexts. GPT-2 better predicts human RTs. LLaMA-3 does less heuristic parses but lacks predictive power.
Can BERT help save endangered languages? Excited to present this paper with @lambdabstract and @BeratDogan03 at LM4UC @naaclmeeting! We explored how multilingual BERT with augmented data perform POS tagging & NER for Hamshentsnag #NAACL 🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.9/

I’ll be at #HSP2025 at the University of Maryland @UofMaryland, College Park, to present my MA thesis work on using pose estimation to detect phonetic reduction in Turkish Sign Language from March 27 to 29. Would love to meet and chat if you are in the area!

Deadline for submitting an abstract to SCOL 2025 has been extended to February 28! Send us your research here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/77582/s…
BU Student Conference on Linguistics @Scol_Boun is back! Please send your abstract on any area of linguistic research (reviewed by top-tier experts from all over the world). We’d love to see you at @UniBogazici on May 6-7. linguistlist.org/issues/36/215/ The deadline may be extended.
BU Student Conference on Linguistics @Scol_Boun is back! Please send your abstract on any area of linguistic research (reviewed by top-tier experts from all over the world). We’d love to see you at @UniBogazici on May 6-7. linguistlist.org/issues/36/215/ The deadline may be extended.
Successfully defended my MA thesis entitled “Discourse Cohesion and Phonetics in Turkish Sign Language: An Experimental and Computational Approach”. Big thanks to my advisors @KadirGokgoz, @dinctopal_deniz and committee members @SzassTam, Didar Akar and Stefano Canalis.

