bsc: metu ceng
msc: metu ceng
( thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Pınar Karagöz)

also spent some time at metu cogs

• google scholar
• linkedin
• github

2025/26 fall

• ceng463: introduction to nlp
• ceng315: algorithms

former TA experience

• ceng444: language processors (resources on github) (2023/24 spring, 2024/25 spring)
• ceng315: algorithms (2022/23 fall, 2023/24 fall, 2024/25 fall)
• ceng242: programming language concepts (2021/22 spring, 2022/23 spring, 2023/24 spring, 2024/25 spring)
• ceng488: guided research (2022/23 spring)
• ceng351: data management and file structures (2022/23 fall)
• ceng336: introduction to embedded systems development (2021/22 spring)

can be found at your favourite local email providers!

• auozturk [at] ceng
• asozturk [at] metu

office: b109
office hours: not fixed, but can be arranged via email (face to face or online).

most research focused on nlp for irony and satire, explainability and interpretability of ai/ml.
currently interested in ai ethics, fairness, bias.
other research interests include human-centered security, privacy, and grammars.

member of EXA4MIND project, funded by the european union.

former member of TEGHUB project, funded by tübitak.

• Make Satire Boring Again: Reducing Stylistic Bias of Satirical Corpus by Utilizing Generative LLMs
  Ozturk, A. U., Cekinel, R.F., Karagoz, P. (2025)
  Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC25) at COLING2025
  [pdf]


• terazi: AI Fairness Tool for Doubly Imbalanced Data
  Ozturk, A. U., Sever, Y., Yalcin, A., Pauw, V., Hachinger, S., Toroslu, I.H., Karagoz, P. (2025)
  34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025), Demo Track
  [pdf]


• IronyTR: Irony Detection in Turkish Informal Texts
  Ozturk, A. U., Cemek, Y., Karagoz, P. (2021)
  International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT)
  [pdf] [code]


• Explainability in Irony Detection
  Buyukbas, E. B., Dogan, A. H., Ozturk, A. U., Karagoz, P. (2021)
  International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2021)
  [pdf]


• Investigating the Neural Models for Irony Detection on Turkish Informal Texts
  Cemek, Y., Cidecio, C., Ozturk, A. U., Cekinel, R. F., Karagoz, P. (2020)
  28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU2020)
  [pdf] [code]


• Enhancing Underground Built Heritage Analysis with Text Mining: A Case Study on Cappadocia
  Karagoz, P., Cekinel, R. F., Dogan, A. H., Oktay, B., Ozturk, A. U., Tonay, T. S., Tuncer, B. M. (2023)
  Valorising Underground Built Heritage in Cappadocia (book chapter)

likes to capture stuff that happen in campus.

interested in linguistics, philosophy, the inevitable crash and burn of llms, visual arts.