Prof. DENİZ ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN


Graduate School of Informatics, Cognitive Science


WoS Research Areas: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary


Avesis Research Areas: Cognitive Science, Linguistics


Names in Publications: Zeyrek Bozşahin Deniz, Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Deniz Zeyrek, Zeyrek D.

Email: dezeyrek@metu.edu.tr
Other Email: dezeyrek@gmail.com
Office Phone: +90 312 210 7780
Web: https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/dezeyrek
Office: https://users.metu.edu.tr/dezeyrek
Address: Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics, Informatics Building A, Floor 2.

Research Areas

Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field that brings together major disiplines such as computer science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics. My research involves speech and language. 

Linguistics

I am interested in discourse structure, discourse relations, linguistic annotation, language acquisition, pragmatics, as well as developing language resources and their evaluation.

Managerial Experience

2016 - 2022

2016 - 2022

Director of The Institution

Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics

2013 - 2015

2013 - 2015

Assistant Director of the Institute

Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics

2010 - 2012

2010 - 2012

Member of the Senate

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office

2010 - 2012

2010 - 2012

University Executive Board Member

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office

2003 - 2012

2003 - 2012

Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics, Cognitive Science

2000 - 2002

2000 - 2002

Member of the Senate

Middle East Technical University, Presidency Office

1996 - 1998

1996 - 1998

Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education

1987 - 1990

1987 - 1990

Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Modern Languages

Advising Theses

2023

2023

Postgraduate

Pronominal anaphora resolution in English and Turkish

Zeyrek Bozşahin D. (Advisor)

M.ERTAN(Student)

2003

2003

Postgraduate

A tune-based accound of Turkish information structure

BOZŞAHİN H. C. (Co-Advisor), ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D. (Co-Advisor)

U.ÖZGE(Student)

2000

2000

Postgraduate

Production of requests by Turkish EFL learners

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D. (Advisor)

G.BAHAR(Student)

Designed Programs

2005 - 2006

2005 - 2006

Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus

Undergraduate

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

1996 - 1997

1996 - 1997

Cognitive Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University

Postgraduate

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

Published journal articles indexed by SCI, SSCI, and AHCI

Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings

2024

2024

Multiple Discourse Relations in English TED Talks and Their Translation into Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Turkish

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Oleškevičienė G. V., Mendes A.

17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, BUCC 2024, Torino, Italy, 20 May 2024, pp.125-134 identifier

2024

2024

Lightweight Connective Detection Using Gradient Boosting

Erolcan Er M., Kurfalı M., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, ISA 2024, Torino, Italy, 20 May 2024, pp.53-59 identifier

2023

2023

Annotating and Disambiguating the Discourse Usage of the Enclitic dA in Turkish

Ersöyleyen E., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Öter F.

17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), Toronto, Canada, 14 July - 17 August 2023, pp.46-54

2023

2023

Comment Clauses in Spoken Turkish: An Analysis of san/zannet/bil (presume/suppose/know)-predicates

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

18th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE, Brussels, Belgium, 9 July - 14 December 2023, pp.874

2022

2022

A description of Turkish Discourse Bank 1.2 and an examination of common dependencies in Turkish discourse

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Er M. E.

The International Conference on Agglutinative Language Technologies as a challenge of Natural Language Processing, ALTNLP’22, Koper, Slovenia, 7 - 08 June 2022, pp.30-41

2020

2020

TED-MDB Lexicons: Tr-EnConnLex, Pt-EnConnLex

Kurfalı M., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Mendes A.

First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, Association for Computational Linguistics, 16 - 20 November 2020, pp.148-153

2020

2020

Turkish Emotion-Voice Database (TurEV-DB)

Canpolat S. F., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Ormanoğlu Z.

Proceedings of the 1st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop (SLTU-CCURL 2020), pages 368–375 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020)., Marseille, France, 11 - 16 May 2020, pp.368-375

2019

2019

TCL - A Lexicon of Turkish Discourse Connectives

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Basibuyuk K.

1st International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, Florence, Italy, 01 August 2019, pp.73-81 Sustainable Development identifier

2018

2018

Issues in applying the PDTB-style of annotation to prepared speeches: the caseof the TED-MDB corpus

Mendes A., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

XVI Encuentros Complutenses en torno a la traducción / International Symposium on Parallel CorporaECETT / PaCor 2018, 5 - 07 November 2018

2018

2018

An Experiment on Sentence Alignments in TED- MDB

Üstün A., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

International Symposium on Parallel CorporaE C E TT – P a C o r 2 0 1 8, 05 November 2018 - 07 May 2011

2018

2018

Observations on the Annotation of Discourse Relational Devices in TED Talk Transcripts in Lithuanian

Valunaite Oleskeviecene G., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Mazeikiene V., Kurfalı M.

Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities co-located with ESSLLI 2018, Sofija, Bulgaria, 6 - 10 August 2018, pp.53-58

2018

2018

Multilingual Extension of PDTB-Style Annotation: The Case of TED Multilingual Discourse Bank

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Mendes A., KURFALI M.

LREC 2018, 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 7 - 12 May 2018

2018

2018

An Assessment of Explicit Inter- and Intra-sentential Discourse Connectives in Turkish Discourse Bank

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., KURFALI M.

LREC 2018, 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 7 - 12 May 2018

2018

2018

Adding Senses and New Discourse Relations to Turkish Discourse Bank: Recent Updates

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Soycan N., Güven A. B., Kurfalı M.

Cross-Linguistic Discourse Annotation Applications and Perspectives, Toulouse, France, 19 - 21 March 2018, pp.185-191

2017

2017

Multilingual extension of PDTB annotation: the case ofTED Multilingual Discourse Bank

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Mendes A.

Workshop on Challenges for the annotation of (DRDs), Madrid, Spain, 4 - 10 June 2017

2017

2017

TDB 1.1: Extensions on Turkish Discourse Bank

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., KURFALI M.

11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) European Chapter of Association of Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 3 - 04 March 2017

2016

2016

A Turkish database for psycholonguistic studies

acar e. a., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., KURFALI M., BOZŞAHİN H. C.

Language Resources and Evaluation, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23 May 2016, vol.10

2006

2006

Anticausatives in Turkish: The role of the suffix -(I)l or -(I)n

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

13th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Uppsala, Sweden, 16 - 20 August 2006, pp.277-285

2006

2006

Anticausatives in Turkish The role of the suffix I l I n

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

13th International Turkish Linguistics Conference, Germany, 16 - 20 August 2006, pp.277-285

2016

2016

A Turkish database for psycholinguistic studies based on frequency age of acquisition and imageability

Acar E. A., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., KURFALI M., BOZŞAHİN H. C.

LREC 2016, 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia, 23 - 28 May 2016, pp.3600-3606

2016

2016

Automatic prediction of implicit discourse relations in Turkish

KURFALI M., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Goncalves T.

TextLink – Structuring Discourse in Multilingual EuropeSecond Action ConferenceKároli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in HungaryBudapest, 11–14 April, 2016, Budapest, Hungary, 11 - 14 April 2016

2014

2014

The Distinction Between Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs in Turkish: An Offline and an Eye Tracking Study of Split Intransitivity.

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Acartürk C.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 36, Quebec, Canada, 23 - 26 July 2014, pp.1832-1837

2014

2014

Discourse connectives and lexical cohesion: An experimental investigation of bi-clausal sentence processing in Turkish

Gönül G., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014), Quebec, Canada, 23 - 26 July 2014, pp.2281-2287

2014

2014

Turkish Resources for Visual Word Recognition

Erten B., BOZŞAHİN H. C., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, 26 - 31 May 2014, pp.2106-2110 identifier

2013

2013

Applicative Structures and Immediate Discourse in the Turkish Discourse Bank

Demirşahin I., Öztürel A., Bozşahin C., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse co-located with the Annual Meeting of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofija, Bulgaria, 4 - 09 August 2013, pp.122-130

2012

2012

Object-first orders in Turkish do not pose a challenge during processing

ÖZGE D., Marinis T., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 18 - 20 May 2012

2012

2012

A Multiple-Constraints Approach to Relative Clause Processing in Turkish Children.

ÖZGE D., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., Marinis T.

16th InternationalConference on Turkish Linguistics, 18 - 21 September 2012

2012

2012

METU Turkish Discourse Bank Browser

Sirin U., Cakici R., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), İstanbul, Turkey, 21 - 27 May 2012, pp.2808-2812 identifier

2010

2010

Parallel function hypothesis revisited in the processing of Turkish relative clauses in adults.

ÖZGE D., Marinis T., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference ofTurkish Linguistics (ICTL, 2010), 20 - 22 August 2010

2011

2011

Linguistic and non-linguistic investigation of motion events

Toplu A. B., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

4th ITRW on Experimental Linguistics, Paris, France, 25 - 27 May 2011, pp.27-30

2010

2010

Discourse relation configurations in Turkish and an annotation environment

Aktaş B., BOZŞAHİN H. C., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, LAW 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, 15 - 16 July 2010, pp.202-206 identifier

2010

2010

Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in Turkish: A Connectionist Approach

Acartürk C., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

8th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, Beijing, China, 21 - 22 August 2010, pp.111-119

2009

2009

Production of relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children

ÖZGE D., Marinis T., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

Proceedings Supplement to the 34th Boston UniversityConference on Language Development (BUCLD, 34), 6 - 08 November 2009

2008

2008

Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children

ÖZGE D., Marinis T., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), 6 - 08 August 2008

2004

2004

The unaccusative unergative distinction in Turkish An experimental investigation

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., ACARTÜRK C.

Advances in Turkish Linguistics. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, İzmir, Turkey, 11 - 13 August 2004, pp.325-337

2002

2002

Development of a corpus and a treebank for present-day written Turkish

SAY B., ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., oflazer k., ÖZGE U.

11th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, 7 - 09 August 2002

2000

2000

Temporal organization and discourse structure

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

The 10th International conference in Turkish Linguistics, İstanbul, Turkey, 16 - 18 August 2000, pp.419-428

Books & Book Chapters

2020

2020

The development of demonstratives in Turkish children’s narratives: First signs of discourse structuring

Bilgiç D. D., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Discourse Meaning The View from Turkish, Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge, Editor, Walter de Gruyter, Inc. , Berlin, pp.137-164, 2020

2020

2020

Subjectivity and objectivity in Turkish causal connectives? Results from a first corpus study on çünkü and için

Çokal D., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Sanders T.

in: Discourse Meaning The View from Turkish, Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge, Editor, Walter de Gruyter, Inc. , Berlin, pp.223-248, 2020

2020

2020

Assessing the validity and reliability of Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB 1.0)

Sevdik Çallı A. B., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Discourse Meaning: The View from Turkish, Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge, Editor, Walter de Gruyter, Inc. , Berlin, pp.251-280, 2020

2020

2020

Introduction: Discourse Structure and Discourse Meaning

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Özge U.

in: Discourse Meaning: The View from Turkish, Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge, Editor, Mouton de Gruyter , Berlin, pp.2-20, 2020

2019

2019

Discourse Structure: The View from Shared Arguments in Turkish Discourse Bank

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Word Order in Turkish, Sumru Özsoy, Editor, Springer, London/Berlin , London, pp.287-306, 2019

2018

2018

Türkçe söylem bankasında söylem bağıntılarının metin türlerine göre değerlendirilmesi

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Soycan N.

in: Türkçede Yapı ve İşlev: Şükriye Ruhi Armağanı, Yeşim Aksan,Mustafa Aksan, Editor, BilgeSu Yayıncılık, Ankara, pp.131-144, 2018

2018

2018

Turkish Discourse Bank: Connectives and Their Configurations.

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D., demirşahin ı., BOZŞAHİN H. C.

in: Turkish Natural Language Processing (pp. 337-356). Springer, Cham., Kemal Oflazer, Murat Saraçlar, Editor, Springer, pp.337-356, 2018

2018

2018

Turkish Discourse Bank: Connectives and Their Configurations

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Demirşahin I., Bozşahin H. C.

in: Turkish Natural Language Processing, Kemal Oflazer,Murat Saraçlar, Editor, Springer, London/Berlin , New-York, pp.337-356, 2018

2017

2017

Pair Annotation as a Novel Annotation Procedure: The Case of Turkish Discourse Bank

Demirşahin I., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Handbook of Linguistic Annotation , Nancy Ide,James Pustejovksy, Editor, Springer, London/Berlin , London, pp.1219-1240, 2017

2017

2017

Söylem Yapısı ve Türkçe Söylem Bankası’ndan bazı bulgular

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Soycan N.

in: 45. Yıl Yazıları, Büyükkantarcıoğlu,Özyıldırım,Işıl,Yarar,Emine, Editor, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, Ankara, pp.395-409, 2017

2016

2016

Turkish children’s early vocabulary: A study on the lexical diversity of two sisters

Kaygusuz Y., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Belma Haznedar,Nihan Ketrez, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.57-78, 2016

2016

2016

Anticausatives in Turkish The role of the suffix -(I)l/-(I)n

ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN D.

in: The Uppsala Meeting, Eva Csato, Birsel Karakoç, Astrid Menz, Editor, Harrosowitz, pp.277-284, 2016

2014

2014

On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama ‘but/yet’ and fakat ‘but’ in written Turkish

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.251-274, 2014

2012

2012

Differential properties of three discourse connectives in Turkish

Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Turan Ü. D., Demirşahin I., Çakıcı R.

in: Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Anton Benz,Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.183-206, 2012

2012

2012

Thanking in Turkish: A Corpus-based Analysis

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures, Leire Luiz Zarobe,Yolanda Luiz Zarobe, Editor, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., Bern, pp.27-52, 2012

2012

2012

Developmental patterns in internal modification of requests: A quantitative study on Turkish learners of English

Göy E., Zeyrek Bozşahin D., Otcu-Grillman B.

in: Interlanguage Request Modification, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Helen Woodfield, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.51-86, 2012

2011

2011

Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish

Turan Ü. D., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.147-168, 2011

2008

2008

Development of requests: A study on Turkish Learners of English.

Otcu B., Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives., Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (Eds.), Editor, Mouton de Gruyter , Berlin, pp.265-298, 2008

2002

2002

Psikoloji makalelerinde üstsöylem Söylem belirleyicileri [Meta Discourse Markers].

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Türkçede Bilgi Yapısı ve Bilimsel Metinler [Information Structure of Turkish and Turkish Academic Articles], Leyla Uzun,Emel Huber, Editor, Die Blue Eule (Brill Imprints), Essen, pp.225-243, 2002

2001

2001

Politeness in Turkish and its Linguistic Manifestations

Zeyrek Bozşahin D.

in: Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries The case of Greek and Turkish, Arın Bayraktaroğlu,Maria Sifianou, Editor, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia , Amsterdam, pp.75-104, 2001

1997

1997

XI. Türk Dilbilim Kurultayı

Zeyrek Bozşahin D. (Editor), Ruhi Ş. (Editor)

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Ankara, 1997

Activities in Scientific Journals

2010 - Continues

2010 - Continues

DILBILIM ARASTIRMALARI

Editor

Memberships / Tasks in Scientific Organizations

2018 - Continues

2018 - Continues

SIGANN Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group for Annotation

Member

2017 - Continues

2017 - Continues

Comité International Permanent des Linguistes/Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL)

Country Representative

2012 - Continues

2012 - Continues

Dilbilim Derneği [(National) Association of Linguistics]

Member

2006 - 2014

2006 - 2014

Leonardo da Vinci (Mesleki Eğitim) Programı bünyesinde Avrupa Dil Etiketi Ödülleri Jürisi (European Language Label Awards)

Member



Invited Talks

October 2022

October 2022

Doğan Aksan Çalıştayı [Workshop in Honour of Doğan Aksan]

Workshop

Ankara University-Turkey

May 2022

May 2022

35. Ulusal Türk Dilbilim Kurultayı [The 35th National Linguistics Conference], Konya

Conference

Necmettin Erbakan University-Turkey

April 2022

April 2022

Interpreting-Translating Talks [online]

Seminar

Kirikkale University-Turkey

September 2021

September 2021

Lisansüstü Öğrencilere Yönelik Yabancı Dil Eğitiminde Bilgisayarlı Derlem Araçlarının Kullanımı ve Dijital Teknolojiler Eğitimi [Use of Computerized Corpus Tools and Digital Technologies Education in Foreign Language Education for Graduate Students] [online]

Workshop

Karadeniz Technical University-Turkey

May 2021

May 2021

İzmir Dilbilim Buluşmaları [İzmir Meetings for Linguistics] [online]

Seminar

Dokuz Eylul University-Turkey

December 2020

December 2020

İnsan ve Toplumbilimler Fakültesi, İngilizce Mütercim-Tercümanlık Semineri [Human and Social Sciences Faculty, Translating and Interpreting Seminar][online]

Seminar

Kirklareli University-Turkey

June 2017

June 2017

Annotation of Discourse Relational Devices (DRDs): Multilingual and Multimodal Challenges, Madrid

Workshop

Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense-Spain

April 2017

April 2017

2. Dilbilim Hayatta Çalıştayı [The 2nd Workshop on Linguistics is Alive]

Workshop

Hacettepe University-Turkey

March 2017

March 2017

11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) , European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Valencia

Workshop

Association of Computational Conference-Spain

February 2017

February 2017

Computational methods and statistics in the annotation and analysis of discourse relations, Praha

Seminar

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, -Czech Republic