TÜBİTAK ARDEB 1001 Programme
Our project, titled “Social Network Modeling Using Persona-Based Large Language Models,” has been selected for funding under the TÜBİTAK ARDEB 1001 Programme’s First Call of 2026.
Applied NLP Research Group
Advancing Natural Language Processing at METU through cutting-edge research in Large Language Models, Generative AI, and beyond.
Recent Updates
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.
TurkBench LLM Benchmark project is successfully completed
We publish TurkBench at huggingface.co/spaces/TurkBench
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
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"
Natural Language Processing Journal
Published in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press. Click here to see the article.