ATAbdullah Topraksoy

Talks & presentations

Ideas in
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Complete presentation record from my current CV: oral conference presentations plus one accepted poster that was later withdrawn. Co-authored proceedings not personally listed as presentations remain on the Publications page.

Presentation record

Talks & posters

Institutional record ↗

AI Driven Text Analysis Techniques in Social Sciences: Advancements and Applications

Congist’24: Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence—Theory and Practice · Istanbul University · Istanbul · 18–20 December 2024 · Oral presentation with Ekaterina Patrina

Navigating Biases, Accuracy, and Ethics in Generative AI: Implications for Social Sciences

Congist’24: Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence—Theory and Practice · Istanbul University · Istanbul · 18–20 December 2024 · Oral presentation

Figurative representations of motion in language: Insights from fictive motion drawings in Turkish

AMLaP 2024 · University of Edinburgh · 5–7 September 2024 · Accepted poster; withdrawn

Typological insights into motion event encoding: A case study of Turkish subordination and case marking patterns

Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) · University of Manchester · 25–26 April 2024 · Oral presentation

Türk İşaret Dili (TİD) ve sağır kültüründe işaret adları [Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign names in Deaf culture]

Alternative and Supportive Communication Systems in All Aspects Symposium · Biruni University · 1 March 2024 · Oral presentation

Motion Predicates in Turkish: A Morpho-syntactic Treatment

2nd NAMED Conference · École Normale Supérieure · Paris · 23–24 May 2019 · Oral presentation

Speaking topics

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I welcome conversations about research seminars, workshops, panels, guest teaching, and interdisciplinary events.

01

Language & mental simulation

What fictive motion reveals about how language shapes spatial thought.

02

Turkish motion events

Path, manner, subordination, and the architecture of event descriptions.

03

Multilingual LLM evaluation

Benchmark quality, cultural grounding, and evaluation beyond aggregate scores.

04

Responsible generative AI

Bias, trust, accuracy, human judgement, and accountability in practice.

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