📰 Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 20 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. TurkBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Turkish Large Language ModelsCagri Toraman, Ahmet Kaan Sever, Ayşe Aysu Cengiz et al.2 citations · our summary
2. A Morphology-Aware Evaluation of Turkish Syntax in Large Language Models ↗Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza1 citation
3. BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish ↗Burak Aktaş, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Süha Kağan Köse et al.1 citation
4. Benchmarking Hate Speech Detection in Azerbaijani with Turkish Cross-Lingual Transfer and Transformer Models ↗Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky1 citation
5. OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for TurkishDeniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman et al.1 citation · our summary
6. RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish ↗Süha Kağan Köse, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Burak Aktaş et al.1 citation

All accepted papers (20)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. TurkBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Turkish Large Language ModelsCagri Toraman, Ahmet Kaan Sever, Ayşe Aysu Cengiz et al.2 citations · our summary
2. A Morphology-Aware Evaluation of Turkish Syntax in Large Language Models ↗Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza1 citation
3. BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish ↗Burak Aktaş, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Süha Kağan Köse et al.1 citation
4. Benchmarking Hate Speech Detection in Azerbaijani with Turkish Cross-Lingual Transfer and Transformer Models ↗Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky1 citation
5. OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for TurkishDeniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman et al.1 citation · our summary
6. RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish ↗Süha Kağan Köse, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Burak Aktaş et al.1 citation
7. A Unified Turkic Idiom Understanding Benchmark: Idiom Detection and Semantic Retrieval Across Five Turkic Languages ↗Gözde Aslantaş, Tunga Gungor
8. Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned ProjectionMuhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasanour summary
9. Building a Turkish Large Language Model via Continual Pre-Training and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation ↗Alperen Enes Bayar, Mert Ege, Gökhan Yurtalan et al.
10. Directed Attention is All You Need: Profiling Style from Limited Text Data ↗Hüseyin Emir Akdağ
11. From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification? ↗Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek
12. Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish NewsUmut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarskyour summary
13. Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and HebrewGiuseppe Samo, Paola Merloour summary
14. Overview of the SIGTURK 2026 Shared Task: Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts ↗Ali Gebeşçe, Abdulfattah Safa, Ege Uğur Amasya et al.
15. SarcasTürk: Turkish Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Dataset ↗Niyazi Ahmet Metin, Sevde Yılmaz, Osman Enes Erdoğdu et al.
16. SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLPRaphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweterour summary
17. TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization ↗Figen Eğin, Aytuğ Onan
18. TUNE: A Task For Turkish Machine Unlearning For Data Privacy ↗Doruk Benli, Ada Canoğlu, Nehir İlkim Gönençer et al.
19. Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies ↗Cagri Coltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva et al.
20. When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English ↗Hasan Can Biyik, Libby Barak, Jing Peng et al.

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (6)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. TurkBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Turkish Large Language ModelsWorkshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic LanguagesCagri Toraman, Ahmet Kaan Sever, Ayşe Aysu Cengiz, et al.2026 · 8 citations
2. Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and HebrewGiuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo2026 · 2 citations
3. SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLPWorkshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic LanguagesRaphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter2026 · 1 citation
4. OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for TurkishWorkshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic LanguagesDeniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish NewsWorkshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic LanguagesUmut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky2026
6. Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned ProjectionWorkshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic LanguagesMuhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧩Morphology (2)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (2)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (1)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (1)Semitic languages (1)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (1)Modern Hebrew (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (6)🖥️Computer Science (6)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Middle East Technical UniversityAnkara · Türkiye2 works here🎓University of FreiburgFreiburg im Breisgau · Germany1 work here🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓Bilkent UniversityAnkara · Türkiye1 work here🎓Politecnico di TorinoTurin · Italy1 work here🎓Boğaziçi UniversityIstanbul · Türkiye1 work here🎓Kırıkkale UniversityKırıkkale · Türkiye1 work here🎓Technical University of MunichMunich · Germany1 work here🎓Hacettepe UniversityAnkara · Türkiye1 work here🎓Istanbul UniversityIstanbul · Türkiye1 work here

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