--- title: "Deniz Yuret — author profile and papers" description: "Deniz Yuret, Koç University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2007–2020), h-index 26 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Deniz Yuret # Deniz Yuret Deniz Yuret works in natural language processing. The papers here, from 2007 to 2020, build and evaluate systems that must handle many languages at once, among them Turkish, Arabic and Greek. They take up two problems: [dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) learned from annotated treebanks, and the classification of short social-media posts with pretrained neural encoders. Both are set as shared-task evaluations, where systems are compared under common rules. The work touches on [multilingual and cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) and on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/). The most cited paper here is [The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2007-conll-2007-shared-task-dependency/) (2007), the overview of a shared task that extended the 2006 edition. Its multilingual track asked one parser to learn from treebanks in ten typologically varied languages. A second track trained on Wall Street Journal text and then parsed English from other domains, with no labelled examples from those domains. The organisers converted the treebanks into one common column format and capped training sizes so that comparisons stayed fair. Its findings suggest that differences in annotation guidelines can outweigh differences in language when scoring a new domain. The more recent paper, [KUISAIL at SemEval-2020 Task 12](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/) (2020), turns to spotting offensive tweets in Arabic, Greek and Turkish. Its BERT-CNN system feeds the top four hidden layers of a language-specific BERT into a convolutional classifier as separate channels, with filters one to five tokens wide. Because no Arabic BERT was available, the team pretrained ArabicBERT in four sizes on web text that included dialects, and released it. Yuret's current affiliation is Koç University in Istanbul, which appears on bylines from 2004 onward. Earlier bylines name the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/), between 1994 and 2007. Co-authors on the papers here include [Joakim Nivre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/), [Sandra Kübler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandra-kubler/) and [Ryan McDonald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/). Deniz Yuret has 2 papers in our library, in 2007–2020, most of them on [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Jens Nilsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-nilsson/), [Joakim Nivre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/), [Johan Hall](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-hall/). 2 papers in our library · 2007–2020 current affiliation [Koç University](https://ror.org/00jzwgz36) · Istanbul Türkiye [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013522667) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7039-0046) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013522667) · [105 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013522667) · [4,232 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013522667&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/#papers) · [1,710 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #1559](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/16/#star-1559) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Deniz+Yuret) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deniz+Yuret) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Deniz+Yuret) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Deniz+Yuret) ## Affiliations [🎓**Koç University** Istanbul · Türkiye 2004–2025 · 76 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00jzwgz36) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1994–2007 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Dependency parsing 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/) ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2007-conll-2007-shared-task-dependency/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nivre-2007-conll-2007-shared-task-dependency/)** *(2007 · 1,010 citations)* This paper reports on the CoNLL 2007 shared task, which continued the 2006 work on data-driven dependency parsing and added a second track. 2. **[KUISAIL at SemEval-2020 Task 12: BERT-CNN for Offensive Speech Identification in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/safaya-2020-kuisail-semeval-2020-task-12/)** *(2020 · 409 citations)* The paper addresses binary detection of offensive tweets in sub-task A of OffensEval 2020 (SemEval-2020 Task 12). ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jens Nilsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-nilsson/) - [Joakim Nivre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/) - [Johan Hall](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-hall/) - [Ryan McDonald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/) - [Sandra Kübler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandra-kubler/) - [Sebastian Riedel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,710 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [220 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yuret/cited-by/).