Best Paper Award for Our Student Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal and Her Advisor Prof. Dr. Tunga Güngör at EAMT 2026
Posted on July 8, 2026 • 1 min read • 73 wordsOur PhD student Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal and her advisor Prof. Dr. Tunga Güngör won the Best Paper Award at EAMT 2026 for their work on diversity-aware literary machine translation.

Our PhD student Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal and her advisor Prof. Dr. Tunga Güngör received the Best Paper Award for their work titled “Diversity-Aware Literary Machine Translation with Multi-Reward Policy Optimization” at the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2026 conference, held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on June 15–18, 2026.
Our Department congratulates Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal and Prof. Dr. Tunga Güngör on this outstanding achievement and wishes them continued success in their academic work.
