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# Murathan Kurfalı

Murathan Kurfalı has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Robert Östling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-ostling/).

2 papers in our library · 2019–2021

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002870078) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7020-8275) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002870078) · [97 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002870078) · [905 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002870078&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murathan-kurfali/#papers) · [🔗 45 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murathan-kurfali/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4401](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4401)

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=Murathan+Kurfal%C4%B1) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Murathan+Kurfal%C4%B1) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Murathan+Kurfal%C4%B1) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Murathan+Kurfal%C4%B1)

## Affiliations

[🔬**RISE Research Institutes of Sweden** Gothenburg · Sweden 2024–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03nnxqz81) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 2019–2025 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🎓**Middle East Technical University** Ankara · Türkiye 2016–2020 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/middle-east-technical-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurfali-2021-let-s-be-explicit-about/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurfali-2019-zero-shot-transfer-implicit-discourse/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Let's be explicit about that: Distant supervision for implicit discourse relation classification via connective prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurfali-2021-let-s-be-explicit-about/)** *(2021 · 31 citations)* Classifying implicit discourse relations, where adjacent sentences are linked without any overt connective, is hard.
2. **[Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurfali-2019-zero-shot-transfer-implicit-discourse/)** *(2019 · 17 citations)* Implicit discourse relations link two text spans without an explicit connective such as "because," and they are the hardest part of discourse parsing.

## Also in our library

5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Robert Östling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-ostling/) ×2

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 45 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murathan-kurfali/cited-by/).