Publications

Unsupervised Translation of German–Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language
Lukas Edman, Ahmet Üstün, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord In WMT 2021 [pdf]

Multilingual Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Denoising Adapters
Ahmet Üstün, Alexandre Berard, Laurent Besacier, Matthias Gallé In EMNLP 2021 [pdf]

On the Difficulty of Translating Free-Order Case-Marking Languages
Arianna Bisazza, Ahmet Üstün, Stephan Sportel In TACL [pdf]

From Masked Language Modeling to Translation: Non-English Auxiliary Tasks Improve Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding
Rob van der Goot, Ibrahim Sharaf, Aizhan Imankulova, Ahmet Üstün, Marija Stepanović, Alan Ramponi, Siti Oryza Khairunnisa, Mamoru Komachi and Barbara Plank In NAACL 2021 [pdf]

On the Effectiveness of Dataset Embeddings in Mono-lingual, Multi-lingual and Zero-shot Conditions
Rob van der Goot*, Ahmet Üstün*, Barbara Plank In AdaptNLP, @EACL2021 [pdf]

Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MACHAMP): A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLP
Rob van der Goot, Ahmet Üstün, Alan Ramponi, Ibrahim Sharaf, Barbara Plank In EACL 2021 [outstanding paper award, demo track] [pdf]

Is Typology-Based Adaptation Effective for Multilingual Sequence Labelling?
Ahmet Üstün, Arianna Bisazza, Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord In SIGTYP, @EMNLP2020 [pdf]

UDapter: Language Adaptation for Truly Universal Dependency Parsing
Ahmet Üstün, Arianna Bisazza, Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord In EMNLP 2020 [pdf]

FiSSA at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Fine-tuned For Feelings
Bertelt Braaksma, Richard Scholtens, Stan van Suijlekom, Remy Wang, Ahmet Üstün In SemEval 2020 [pdf]

Incorporating Word Embeddings in Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation
Ahmet Üstün, Burcu Can
In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 2020 [doi]

There and Back Again: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Event Detection
Tommaso Caselli, Ahmet Üstün
In CLIC-it 2019 [pdf]

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for Morphologically Rich Languages
Ahmet Üstün, Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord
In RANLP 2019 [pdf]

Multi-Team: A Multi-attention, Multi-decoder Approach to Morphological Analysis
Ahmet Üstün, Rob van der Goot, Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord
In SIGMORPHON 2019, ACL 2019 [pdf]

Characters or Morphemes: How to Represent Words?
Ahmet Üstün, Murathan Kurfalı, Burcu Can
In 3rd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, @ACL2018 [best paper award] [pdf]

TextLink Web Portal
Murathan Kurfalı, Ahmet Üstün, Bonnie Webber
In TextLink 2018 [pdf]

Probabilistic Learning Of Turkish Morphosemantics By Latent Syntax
Ahmet Üstün
M.S. Thesis, METU [pdf]

A Trie-Structured Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation
Murathan Kurfalı, Ahmet Üstün, Burcu Can In CICLing 2017 [pdf]

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation Using Neural Word Embeddings
Ahmet Üstün, Burcu Can
In SLSP 2016 [pdf]

Turkish PoS Tagging by Reducing Sparsity with Morpheme Tags in Small Datasets
Burcu Can, Ahmet Üstün, Murathan Kurfalı
In CICLing 2016 [pdf]

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