Publications

Journal Publications

  • Emotion classification in texts over graph neural networks: Semantic representation is better than syntactic
    Iqra Ameer, Necva Bölücü, Grigori Sidorov, Burcu Can.
    IEEE Access. Vol 11. 56921-56934. 2023
  • Text data augmentation using generative adversarial networks–a systematic review
    Kanishka Silva, Burcu Can, Raham Sarwar, Frederic Blain, Ruslan Mitkov.
    Journal of Computational and Applied Linguistics. Vol 1. 6-38
  • A Siamese Neural Network for Learning Semantically-Informed Sentence Embeddings
    Necva Bolucu, Burcu Can
    Expert Systems with Applications. Vol.214. 2023
  • Multi-label Emotion Classification in Texts using Transfer Learning
    Iqra Amer, Necva Bolucu, Muhammed Hammad Fahim Siddiqui, Burcu Can, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh.
    Expert Systems with Applications. Vol. 213, Part A. 2023
  • Joint learning of morphology and syntax with cross-level contextual information flow
    Burcu Can, Hüseyin Aleçakır, Suresh Manandhar, Cem Bozşahin.
    The Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press. 2022 [ pdf ]
  • Attention: There is an Inconsistency between Android Permissions and Application Metadata!
    Hüseyin Aleçakır, Burcu Can, Sevil Sen.
    International Journal of Information Security. Springer. 2021
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  • A Cascaded Unsupervised Model for PoS Tagging.
    Necva Bölücü and Burcu Can.
    ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). 2021
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  • Incorporating Word Embeddings in Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation.
    Ahmet Üstün and Burcu Can.
    The Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press. 2020
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  • Transfer Learning for Turkish Named Entity Recognition on Noisy Text
    Emre Kağan Akkaya and Burcu Can.
    The Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press. 27(1), 35-64. 2020
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  • Stemming Turkish Words with LSTM Networks
    Burcu Can.
    Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi. July 2019, Vol.12, No:3.
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  • Unsupervised Joint PoS Tagging and Stemming for Agglutinative Languages
    Necva Bölücü and Burcu Can.
    ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). February 2019, Vol. 18, No. 3
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  • Turkish Lexicon Expansion by Using Finite State Automata
    Burak Öztürk and Burcu Can.
    Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. December 2018. Vol. 27:1012-1027
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  • Tree Structured Dirichlet Processes for Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation
    Burcu Can and Suresh Manandhar.
    Computational Linguistics. MIT Press Journal. June 2018, Vol. 44, No.2.
    [pdf | code]
  • Unsupervised Learning of Allomorphs in Turkish
    Burcu Can.
    Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 2017.
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    • Conference Publications

  • Error Analysis of NLP Models and Non-Native Speakers of English Identifying Sarcasm in Reddit Comments
    O Cakebread-Andrews, I Frommholz, B Can
    Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). 6247-6256. 2024.
  • Forged-GAN-BERT: Authorship attribution for LLM-generated forged novels
    K Silva, I Frommholz, B Can, F Blain, R Sarwar, L Ugolini
    Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop. 325-337. 2024.
  • Authorship attribution of late 19th century novels using GAN-BERT
    K Silva, B Can, F Blain, R Sarwar, L Ugolini, R Mitkov
    Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop). 2023.
  • Which Sentence Representation is More Informative: An Analysis on Text Classification
    Necva Bölücü and Burcu Can
    The Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023). Washington. 2023.
  • Analysing Syntactic and Semantic Features in Pre-trained Language Models in a Fully Unsupervised Setting
    Necva Bölücü and Burcu Can
    The 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2022). Delhi, India. 2022.
  • Comparison of Token-and Character-Level Approaches to Restoration of Spaces, Punctuation, and Capitalization in Various Languages
    Laurence Dyer, Anthony Hughes, Diwani Shah, Burcu Can
    The 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2022). Online. 2022.
  • TurkishDelightNLP: A Neural Turkish NLP Toolkit.
    Huseyin Alecakir, Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    NAACL 2022, Seattle, USA 2022.
  • Turkish Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation.
    Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    LREC 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, France, 2022.
  • A GRU-based Pipeline Approach for Word-Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Restoration in English.
    Jasivan Sivakumar, Jake Muga, Flavio Spadavecchia, Daniel White, Burcu Can.
    IALP 2021 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, 2021.
  • Bilingual Terminology Extraction Using Neural Word Embeddings on Comparable Corpora.
    Darya Filippova, Burcu Can, Gloria Corpas.
    RANLP 2021 Recent Advences in Natural Language Processing. 2021.
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  • Self Attended Stack Pointer Networks for Learning Long Term Dependencies.
    Salih Tuç, Burcu Can.
    The 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2020). 2020.
    [pdf]
  • Discovering Inconsistencies between Requested Permissions and Application Metadata by using Deep Learning.
    Hüseyin Aleçakır, Muhammet Kabukcu, Burcu Can, Sevil Sen.
    The 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology. 2020.
    [pdf]
  • Tuning Language Representation Models for Classification of Turkish News
    Meltem Tokgöz, Fatmanur Turhan, Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can
    2020 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (ECNLPIR 2020), 2020
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  • Language Representation Models for Music Genre Classification using Lyrics
    Enes Furkan Çiğdem, Hasan Akalp, Şeyma Yılmaz, Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    2020 European Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (ECNLPIR 2020), 2020
    [pdf]
  • Sarcasm Target Identification with LSTM Networks
    Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    28. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı, Virtual, 2020.
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  • Turkish Music Generation Using Deep Learning
    Anıl Aydıngün, Denizcan Bağdatlıoğlu, Burak Canbaz, Abdullak Kökbıyık, M. Furkan Yavuz, Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    28. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı, Virtual, 2020.
    [pdf]
  • Using Morpheme-Level Attention Mechanism for Turkish Sequence Labelling
    Yasin Eşref and Burcu Can.
    27. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı, Sivas, 2019.
    [pdf]
  • Context Based Automatic Spelling Correction for Turkish
    Necva Bölücü and Burcu Can.
    Elektrik-Elektronik Bilgisayar, Biyomedikal Mühendislikleri Bilimsel Toplantısı (EBBT), İstanbul, April 2019. IEEE Xplore.
    [pdf]
  • Analysis of Adversarial Attacks against Traditional Spam Filters
    Hüseyin Burhan Özkan, Sevil Şen, Burcu Can
    International Conference on All Aspects of Cyber Security, Adana, 2019.
  • Neural Sentiment Analysis of User Reviews to Predict User Ratings
    Bahar Gezici, Necva Bölücü, Ayça Tarhan, Burcu Can.
    The 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK 2019), IEEE CPS.
    [pdf]
  • Neural Text Normalization for Turkish Social Media
    Sinan Göker and Burcu Can.
    32. Uluslararası Bilgisayar Bilimleri ve Mühendisliği Konferansı, UBMK 2018, Saray Bosna, Bosna Hersek. 2018.
    [pdf]
  • Characters or Morphemes: How to Represent Words?
    Ahmet Üstün, Murathan Kurfalı, and Burcu Can.
    3rd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP), ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia. (Best Paper Award)
    [pdf | code, data]
  • The Role of Letter Frequency on Eye Movements in Sentential Pseudoword Reading
    C. Acartürk, Ö. Kılıç, B. Kırkıcı, B. Can, A. Özkan.
    The 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017.
    [pdf]
  • A Trie-Sructured Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation.
    Murathan Kurfalı, Ahmet Üstün, Burcu Can.
    18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2017), Budapest, Hungary 2017.
  • Joint PoS Tagging and Stemming for Agglutinative Languages.
    Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2017), Budapest, Hungary 2017.
  • Stem-based PoS Tagging for Agglutinative Languages.
    Necva Bölücü, Burcu Can.
    25. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU 2017), Antalya, Mayıs 2017.
    [pdf]
  • Buildings Morphological Chains for Agglutinating Languages.
    Serkan Özen, Burcu Can.
    18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2017), Budapest, Hungary 2017.
  • Modelling Morpheme Triplets with a Three-level Hierarchical Dirichlet Process.
    Serkan Kumyol, Burcu Can.
    20th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2016), Tainan, Taiwan, 2016.
    [pdf]
  • Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation Using Neural Word Embeddings.
    Ahmet Üstün, Burcu Can.
    4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2016), Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2016.
    [pdf]
  • Turkish PoS Tagging by Reducing Sparsity with Morpheme Tags in Small Datasets.
    Burcu Can, Ahmet Üstün, Murathan Kurfalı.
    17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2016), Konya, Turkey, 2016.
    [pdf]
  • Clustering Word Roots Syntactically.
    M. Burak Öztürk, Burcu Can.
    24. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU 2016), Zonguldak, Mayıs 2016.
    [pdf]
  • Allomorphs and Binary Transitions Reduce Sparsity in Turkish Semi-supervised Morphological Processing.
    Burcu Can, Serkan Kumyol, Cem Bozşahin.
    The First Conference on Turkic Computational Linguistics (TurCLing), Konya, Turkey, 2016.
    [pdf]
  • Methods and Algorithms for Unsupervised Learning of Morphology.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2014.
    [pdf]
  • A Syllable-Based Turkish Speech Recognition System by Using Time Delay Neural Networks.
    Burcu Can, Harun Artuner.
    5th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2013). Hanoi, Vietnam. 2013.
  • Dirichlet Processes for Joint Learning of Morphology and PoS Tags.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2013 (IJCNLP 2013). Nagoya, Japan. 2013.
    [pdf]
  • An Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Morpheme Labelling.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2013 (RANLP 2013). Hissar, Bulgaria. September, 2013.
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  • Probabilistic Hierarchical Clustering of Morphological Paradigms.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    EACL 2012. Avignon, France. April 2012.
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  • Clustering Morphological Paradigms Using Syntactic Categories.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    Revised Selected Papers Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2010.
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  • Unsupervised Learning of Morphology by Using Syntactic Categories.
    Burcu Can, Suresh Manandhar.
    CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece.
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