Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax(QKᵀ / √d_k) · V
P(w_t | w_{t-1}, …, w_1) = ∏ P(w_i | w_{i-1})
L(θ) = − Σ log P_θ(x_i | x_{<i})
h_t = σ(W_x · x_t + W_h · h_{t-1} + b)
ŷ = softmax(W₂ · ReLU(W₁ · x + b₁) + b₂)
∇_θ J(θ) = E_{(x,y)~D} [∇_θ log P_θ(y | x)]
f(x) ≥ 0? NLP? Sent.? LLM Summ. Multi. Gen.

Software Engineering · Ankara University · Est. 2024

Advanced Natural Language
Multimedia and Network
Laboratory

Fundamental and applied research at the intersection
of language, networking, and intelligence.

5 Researchers
6 Research Areas
4 Universities
2024 Founded
Google Cloud Research Grant Recipient · Active
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01 Research Areas
R · 01

Large Language Models

Advancing the adaptability, robustness, and efficiency of LLMs across diverse domains and languages. We study parameter-efficient fine-tuning, cross-lingual transfer, instruction-following, and LLM alignment — with particular focus on Turkish and morphologically complex languages.

Fine-tuning Cross-lingual Turkish NLP Instruction-following LLM Alignment
R · 02

Sentiment & Opinion Analysis

Fine-grained multimodal opinion mining for Turkish and multilingual social media, reviews, and multimedia content. Combining text, visual, and acoustic cues for aspect-level analysis.

Aspect-level Multimodal Turkish
R · 03

Document Summarization

Abstractive and hybrid summarization of long, complex, and multiple documents. Novel architectures for extreme multi-document and long-context NLP with hierarchical transformers.

Abstractive Multi-doc Long Context
R · 04

NLP Evaluation & Robustness

Comprehensive benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for robustness under distribution shift and adversarial conditions.

Benchmarks Adversarial
R · 05

Multimedia Processing

Cross-modal learning fusing text, image, audio, and video for visual QA, video captioning, and cross-modal retrieval tasks at scale.

Vision-Language Audio Retrieval
R · 06

Content Generation

Reliable, factual, and controllable text generation — hallucination reduction, factuality grounding, and domain-specific content synthesis with RAG pipelines.

Factuality RAG Controlled Gen.
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02 Selected Publications
Year Title & Authors Venue Links
2026
A White-Box Benchmark for Intrinsic Hallucination Detection in Turkish LLMs
Bayramoglu, B., Ficici, M., Bildirici, F., Savran Kiziltepe, R., & Karakus, M.
IISEC 2026 · V. International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference
Conference
2025
FLUXAI: Layered Explainability for Human-Centered Understanding via Feynman's Approach
Bildirici, F., Savran Kiziltepe, R., & Karakus, M.
HCI-E 2025 · 4th Eurasian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Conference
2025
Advancing Sentiment Analysis for Low-Resource Languages Using Fine-Tuned LLMs: A Case Study of Customer Reviews in Turkish Language
Savran Kiziltepe, R., Ezin, E., Yentur, O., Basbrain, A. M., & Karakus, M.
IEEE Access · Vol. 13, pp. 77382-77394
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03 People
Assoc. Prof. Murat Karakus
Principal Investigator
Assoc. Prof. Murat Karakus
Department of Software Engineering
Ankara University, Turkey
NLP LLMs Multimedia AI Turkish NLP
Assist. Prof. Dr. Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe
Principal Investigator
Assist. Prof. Dr. Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe
Department of Software Engineering
Ankara University, Turkey
Machine Learning Applied NLP Turkish Sentiment Analysis
Dr. Ercan Ezin
Investigator
Dr. Ercan Ezin
Lecturer
Department of Computer Engineering
Context-Aware Recsys Next-POI Recommendation NLP LLM Fine-tuning
Prof. Asim Egemen Yilmaz
Investigator
Prof. Asim Egemen Yilmaz
Faculty of Engineering
Ankara University, Turkey
AI Technologies Software Engineering Defense Software
Fatih Bildirici
PhD Candidate · AI Research Fellow
Fatih Bildirici
PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence
Explainable AI LLM Evaluation Turkish NLP
Berkay Bayramoglu
Undergraduate Researcher
Berkay Bayramoglu
Department of Software Engineering
Ankara University, Turkey
Mert Ficici
Undergraduate Researcher
Mert Ficici
Department of Software Engineering
Ankara University, Turkey
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04 News & Updates
6 Sep '24 Grant
Google Cloud research credits awarded to ANLAM-Net Lab
The grant supports state-of-the-art cloud resources for multimedia processing and sentiment analysis, enabling faster pipelines and more ambitious NLP research.
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