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# 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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/morocco/) · 🗓 March 2026

[**20** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/2026/#works) · [**12** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/2026/#works)

## 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 Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toraman-2026-turkbench-benchmark-evaluating-turkish-large/)**Cagri 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.9/)**Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza*1 citation*
3. **[BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.13/)**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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.10/)**Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky*1 citation*
5. **[OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for Turkish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yilmaz-2026-ocrturk-comprehensive-ocr-benchmark-turkish/)**Deniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman et al.*1 citation · our summary*
6. **[RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.15/)**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 Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toraman-2026-turkbench-benchmark-evaluating-turkish-large/)**Cagri 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.9/)**Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza*1 citation*
3. **[BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.13/)**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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.10/)**Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky*1 citation*
5. **[OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for Turkish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yilmaz-2026-ocrturk-comprehensive-ocr-benchmark-turkish/)**Deniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman et al.*1 citation · our summary*
6. **[RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.15/)**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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.4/)**Gözde Aslantaş, Tunga Gungor
8. **[Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned Projection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yagiz-2026-beyond-token-correcting-tokenization-bias/)**Muhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan*our summary*
9. **[Building a Turkish Large Language Model via Continual Pre-Training and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.17/)**Alperen Enes Bayar, Mert Ege, Gökhan Yurtalan et al.
10. **[Directed Attention is All You Need: Profiling Style from Limited Text Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.2/)**Hüseyin Emir Akdağ
11. **[From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.18/)**Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek
12. **[Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish News](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ozbagriacik-2026-language-matters-target-language-supervision/)**Umut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky*our summary*
13. **[Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samo-2026-modelling-morphology-verbal-paradigms-case/)**Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo*our summary*
14. **[Overview of the SIGTURK 2026 Shared Task: Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.20/)**Ali Gebeşçe, Abdulfattah Safa, Ege Uğur Amasya et al.
15. **[SarcasTürk: Turkish Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.6/)**Niyazi Ahmet Metin, Sevde Yılmaz, Osman Enes Erdoğdu et al.
16. **[SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmitt-2026-sindbert-sailor-charting-seas-turkish/)**Raphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter*our summary*
17. **[TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.5/)**Figen Eğin, Aytuğ Onan
18. **[TUNE: A Task For Turkish Machine Unlearning For Data Privacy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.3/)**Doruk Benli, Ada Canoğlu, Nehir İlkim Gönençer et al.
19. **[Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.14/)**Cagri Coltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva et al.
20. **[When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigturk-1.11/)**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 Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toraman-2026-turkbench-benchmark-evaluating-turkish-large/) [Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/)**Cagri 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 Hebrew**Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo*2026 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samo-2026-modelling-morphology-verbal-paradigms-case/)
3. **[SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmitt-2026-sindbert-sailor-charting-seas-turkish/) [Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/)**Raphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for Turkish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yilmaz-2026-ocrturk-comprehensive-ocr-benchmark-turkish/) [Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/)**Deniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish News](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ozbagriacik-2026-language-matters-target-language-supervision/) [Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/)**Umut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky*2026*
6. **[Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned Projection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yagiz-2026-beyond-token-correcting-tokenization-bias/) [Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigturk/)**Muhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Morphology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Cagri Toraman**2 works here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cagri-toraman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Giuseppe Samo**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-samo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Paola Merlo**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-merlo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Deniz Yilmaz**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deniz-yilmaz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Evren Ayberk Munis**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evren-ayberk-munis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Raphael Schmitt**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-schmitt/) · [🧑‍🔬**Stefan Schweter**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-schweter/) · [🧑‍🔬**Haim Dubossarsky**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haim-dubossarsky/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Middle East Technical University** Ankara · Türkiye 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/middle-east-technical-university/) · [🎓**University of Freiburg** Freiburg im Breisgau · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-freiburg/) · [🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🎓**Bilkent University** Ankara · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bilkent-university/) · [🎓**Politecnico di Torino** Turin · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/politecnico-di-torino/) · [🎓**Boğaziçi University** Istanbul · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bogazici-university/) · [🎓**Kırıkkale University** Kırıkkale · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kirikkale-university/) · [🎓**Technical University of Munich** Munich · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) · [🎓**Hacettepe University** Ankara · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hacettepe-university/) · [🎓**Istanbul University** Istanbul · Türkiye 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/istanbul-university/)

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