Olsen Zobar

Olsen (Oğuzhan) Zobar is a Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at Ghent University supervised by Prof. Dr. Jeroen Vandaele & co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrew Benjamin Bricker. He is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication and a member of the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3) as well as Translation and Culture (TRACE) research groups at the same department. Olsen holds a master's degree in Translation and Interpreting Technologies from Ghent University (Belgium) with a dissertation on "Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis in Turkish" (2024). Before joining the Ghent University, Olsen was a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University (2022) teaching Turkish as a foreign language. Olsen has a research interests in humor studies, political science, sentiment analysis, deep learning, neural networks, and natural language processing in the age of artificial intelligence. In addition, Olsen is part of the Democratic Literacy and Humor (DELIAH) project funded by Horizon Europe, examining the role of translation in international humor scandals.