Established in 2000 under the ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, the ITU Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group is Turkey's oldest and largest center for language technologies. Our mission is to develop intelligent systems that can meaningfully understand and generate human language by combining linguistics and AI, thereby transforming human-machine interaction. While specializing in the Turkish language, the group aims to bridge language barriers, provide social benefit, and nurture the next generation of researchers by focusing on real-world challenges in fields such as healthcare, education, and industry. Our laboratory develops innovative research and applications at the intersection of language, AI, and data science, operating in strong collaboration with the ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, ITU Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Center, the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, and the ITU Turkish Language Teaching Application and Research Center.

• Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Word, Sentence, and Document-Level Language Modeling
• Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
• Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI
• Text Generation, Prompt Design, and Fine-Tuning
• Evaluation and Model Reliability
• Multilingual and Turkish-Centric Language Technologies
• Morphological Analysis and Coreference Resolution for Turkish
• Information Extraction and Information Retrieval
• Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction
• Question-Answering (QA) Systems and Document-Level Understanding
• Text Mining and Interpretation
• Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Text Classification
• Text Summarization
• Speech and Dialogue Systems
• Chatbots and Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Educational and Language Learning Technologies
• AI-Powered Learning Systems
• Text Simplification and Automated Evaluation

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