Applied NLP Research Group

Advancing Natural Language Processing at METU through cutting-edge research in Large Language Models, Generative AI, and beyond.

METU NLP Lab

Recent Updates

November 2025

Google Gemini and Gemma Academic Program Award

Our group is awarded a total of USD 80,000.00 in Google Cloud Credits specifically to support our research projects at Middle East Technical University.

May 2025

Research study published at ACL 2025

Our research study titled "Evaluating the Quality of Benchmark Datasets for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Turkish" has been published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics at ACL 2025. See details at aclanthology.org

December 2024

EMNLP 2024 Conference

Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop accepted our paper titled "Adapting Open-Source Generative Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study for Turkish"

November 2024

Natural Language Processing Journal

Published in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press. Click here to see the article.