{"id":103,"date":"2026-09-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:54:55","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">My research lies at the intersection of statistics, machine learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on reliable inference, low-resource language technologies and responsible evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statistical Inference for AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Statistically valid inference from model-generated evidence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Calibration and uncertainty quantification<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Risk control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Conformal prediction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Semi-supervised and prediction-powered inference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Natural Language Processing &amp; Legal AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Turkish and low-resource NLP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Legal document understanding and classification<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Extractive and abstractive summarisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dense and hybrid retrieval<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Retrieval augmented generation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Benchmark construction and evaluation methodology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Responsible and Efficient AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Green AI and energy-aware evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Efficiency accuracy trade-offs in NLP systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Benchmarking transformer and non-transformer architectures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statistical Modelling &amp; Data Science<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Statistical modelling and inference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Computational statistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Time series and state-space models<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Stochastic processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Resampling and bootstrap methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Survey and sampling design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Experimental design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crisis Data and Data Governance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I contributed to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of 146 survey responses in CODATA&#8217;s Data Policy Committee work on data policies for times of crisis. The work included close analysis of open-ended responses concerning training, standards, data governance and collaboration between researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research lies at the intersection of statistics, machine learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on reliable inference, low-resource language technologies and responsible evaluation. Statistical Inference for AI Natural Language Processing &amp; Legal AI Responsible and Efficient AI Statistical Modelling &amp; Data Science Crisis Data and Data Governance I contributed to the quantitative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9623,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/maerkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}