About
Hello! I am a Ph.D. student and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, advised by Prof. Kairit Sirts. I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP). My current research is on Narrative Question Answering.
I received my MSc in Computer Science degree from Eötvös Loránd University, where I was supported by the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship. I completed my BSc in Information Technology and Systems Engineering at ADA University.
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News
- (11/2025) Attending EMNLP 2025 conference in Suzhou, China.
- (10/2025) Awarded Mobility Grant of Estonian Doctoral School.
- (09/2025) A paper has been accepted to the *SEM 2025 conference!
- (03/2025) Attending the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn.
- (02/2025) TA-ing for Natural Language Processing course.
- (09/2024) Coordinating NLP Seminar on Large Language Models.
- (07/2024) Attending the ESSIR 2024 summer school at the University of Amsterdam.
- (06/2024) Attending the NAACL 2024 conference in Mexico City, Mexico.
- (03/2024) A paper has been accepted to the NAACL 2024 main conference!
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Selected Publications
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Towards Evaluation of Language Models with Skill Dimensions: A Case Study on Narrative Question Answering
Emil Kalbaliyev and
Kairit Sirts
In Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025)
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On Narrative Question Answering Skills
Emil Kalbaliyev and
Kairit Sirts
In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024)
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Narrative Why-Question Answering: A Review of Challenges and Datasets
Emil Kalbaliyev and
Kairit Sirts
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM Workshop @ EMNLP 2022)
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Text Similarity Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Character-Based Similarity Measures
[Best Paper Award]
Emil Kalbaliyev and
Samir Rustamov
In Proceedings of 8th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference (MIDI’2020)
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Teaching
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Academic Service
- Thesis Defence Committee/Opponent, Master/Bachelor Thesis Defences, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu (2023 Spring, 2024 Spring)
- Program Committee/Reviewer:
- Conferences: ECIR 2026, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025, COLING 2025, ICTIR 2023
- Workshops: GEM^2 Workshop @ ACL 2025, GEM Workshop @ EMNLP 2022
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2024
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