Curriculum Vitae
General
- Full name: Furkan Akkurt
- Birth: 2nd October 1997
- Languages: Turkish and English.
- Interests: Computational linguistics, linguistic variation, and phonology.
- ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8411-654X
- Email address: furkanakkurt9285@gmail.com
- Phone: +90(532) 283-7893
- Links: GitHub, LinkedIn, and personal website.
Education
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, pursuing
- Institution: Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Advisor: Susan Üsküdarlı
- Courses taken
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 2023
- Institution: Boğaziçi University
- Courses taken
- High School Diploma, 2015
- Institution: Şehremini Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul
Vocations
- Teaching Assistant, 2023 -
- Institution: Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University
- Courses:
- CMPE 451 - Project Development in Software Engineering (Teacher: Susan Üsküdarlı)
- CMPE 352 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering (Teacher: Susan Üsküdarlı)
- CMPE 150 - Introduction to Computing
- CMPE 443 - Principles of Embedded Systems Design (Teacher: Arda Yurdakul)
- System Administrator, 2023
- Institution: TETAM, Boğaziçi University
- Internship on Automated UI Testing, 2022
- Company: Trailblu, Istanbul
- Internship on Machine Learning, 2022
- Company: Caretta Software, Istanbul
Volunteering
- Student Volunteer, 2023
- Conference: EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Student Assistant, 2022
- Course: CMPE 150 - Introduction to Computing (Teacher: Murat Özyurt)
- Institution: Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University
Projects
- Turkic UD unification, 2023 -
- Unifying annotations of Turkic UD treebanks.
- TURNA, 2023 - 2024
- Training a Turkish encoder-decoder language model.
- UD Treebank Evaluation, 2022 - 2024
- Evaluating annotation quality of UD treebanks, especially 2 versions of the Turkish BOUN treebank.
- Turkish Language Processing Platform (TULAP), 2022 - 2023
- Development of a research output platform.
- A Collaborative Web Tool for Linguistic Annotation (BoAT), 2022
- BSc Senior Project (CMPE 492), advised by Susan Üsküdarlı.
- Awarded the best project.
Publications
- TURNA: A Turkish Encoder-Decoder Language Model for Enhanced Understanding and Generation
- Authors: Uludoğan G, Balal ZY, Akkurt F, Türker M, Güngör O, Üsküdarlı S.
- Conference: ACL 2024, August 11-16, 2024
- Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks
- Authors: Washington J, Çöltekin Ç, Akkurt F, Chontaeva B, Eslami S, Jumalieva G, Kasieva A, Kuzgun A, Marşan B, Taguchi C.
- Workshop: MWE-UD 2024, May 25, 2024
- Evaluating the Quality of a Corpus Annotation Scheme Using Pretrained Language Models
- Authors: Akkurt F, Güngör O, Marşan B, Güngör T, Öztürk Başaran B, Özgür A, Üsküdarlı S.
- Conference: LREC-COLING 2024, May 20-25, 2024
- TULAP - An Accessible and Sustainable Platform for Turkish Natural Language Processing Resources
- Authors: Uskudarli S, Şen M, Akkurt F, Gürbüz M, Gungor O, Özgür A, Güngör T.
- Conference: EACL 2023, May 2-6, 2023
- BoAT v2 - A Web-Based Dependency Annotation Tool with Focus on Agglutinative Languages
- Authors: Akkurt SF, Marşan B, Uskudarli S.
- Conference: ALTNLP 2022, June 7-8, 2022
- Enhancements to the BOUN Treebank Reflecting the Agglutinative Nature of Turkish
- Authors: Marşan B, Akkurt SF, Şen M, Gürbüz M, Güngör O, Özateş ŞB, Üsküdarlı S, Özgür A, Güngör T, Öztürk B.
- Conference: ALTNLP 2022, June 7-8, 2022
Conferences & Workshops
- 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
- Location: Calabria, Italy
- Dates: October 10-12, 2024
- Presentation: “A Universal-Dependencies Corpus for Inner Asia Minor Greek contact-induced phenomena” by Konstantinos Sampanis.
- ACL 2024
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
- Dates: August 11-16, 2024
- Presentation: “TURNA: A Turkish Encoder-Decoder Language Model for Enhanced Understanding and Generation” by Gökçe Uludoğan and Zeynep Balal.
- SCOL 2024
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Dates: May 31 - June 1, 2024
- Role: Reviewed abstracts.
- LREC-COLING 2024
- Location: Turin, Italy
- Dates: May 20-25, 2024
- Presentation: “Evaluating the Quality of a Corpus Annotation Scheme Using Pretrained Language Models”.
- Presentation: “Strategies for the Annotation of Pronominalised Locatives in Turkic Universal Dependency Treebanks” by Çağrı Çöltekin.
- 37. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı (37th National Linguistics Conference)
- Location: Kocaeli, Turkey
- Dates: May 16-17, 2024
- Presentation: “Ön Eğitimli Dil Modelleri Kullanarak Dil Ağaçlarının Niteliğinin Değerlendirilmesi” (Evaluating the Quality of Treebanks using Pretrained Language Models) with Balkız Öztürk Başaran.
- 2nd UniDive Workshop
- UD Turkic Workshop 2023 (UDTW23)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Date: September 8, 2023
- Role: Co-organized the workshop.
- SCOL 2023
- EACL 2023
- ALTNLP 2022
- Location: Koper, Slovenia
- Dates: June 7-8, 2022
- Presentation: “BoAT v2 – A Web-Based Dependency Annotation Tool with Focus on Agglutinative Languages” online.
- Presentation: “Enhancements to the BOUN Treebank Reflecting the Agglutinative Nature of Turkish” by Büşra Marşan.
Miscellaneous
- Boğaziçi University
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Date: September 19-30, 2024
- Hosted Konstantinos Sampanis as part of a Short-term Scientific Mission (STSM) of the COST Action CA21167, UniDive
- Presentation: “Asia Minor Greek in Contact (AMGiC): A Universal Dependencies Treebank” by Konstantinos Sampanis.
- Boğaziçi University
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Date: August 7, 2024
- Presentation: “Universal Dependencies, treebanks, and consistency efforts” in the framework of the course “Historical Linguistics”.
- Technical University of Moldova
- Location: Chișinău, Moldova
- Date: July 8-12, 2024
- Attended the 1st UniDive Training School.
- Presentation: “A Collaborative Grammatical Annotation Tool, BoAT”.
- University of Vienna
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Date: June 16-23, 2024
- As part of an STSM of UniDive, with Konstantinos Sampanis.
- Presentation: “Developing a Turkish and an Asia Minor Greek Treebank via a Collaborative Annotation Tool” in the framework of the course “Historical Grammar of Modern Greek”.
Open Source Contributions
Extracurricular Activities
- Like solving crosswords, problems, such as the ones on Project Euler, KenKen and similar puzzles.
- Regular contributor to certain Wikimedia Projects.
- Regular contributor to and transcriber on Genius.