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Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2024 for Hinrich Schütze and Lütfi Kerem Senel

Advancing NLP for Low‑resource Turkic Languages

At EACL 2024, the paper “Kardeş‑NLU: Transfer to Low‑Resource Languages with Big Brother’s Help – A Benchmark and Evaluation for Turkic Languages” received the Outstanding Paper Award.

The work, co‑authored by MCML PI Hinrich Schütze and Junior Member Lütfi Kerem Senel together with Benedikt Ebing, Konul Baghirova, and Goran Glavaš, introduces a comprehensive benchmark and evaluation framework to advance natural language understanding in low‑resource Turkic languages through cross‑lingual transfer.

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L. K. Senel • B. Ebing • K. Baghirova • H. Schütze • G. Glavaš
Kardeş-NLU: Transfer to Low-Resource Languages with Big Brother’s Help – A Benchmark and Evaluation for Turkic Languages.
EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. St. Julians, Malta, Mar 17-22, 2024. Outstanding Paper Award. DOI
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