Syn-TurnTurk: A Synthetic Dataset for Turn-Taking Prediction in Turkish Dialogues

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13620v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:39:26 GMT
• Title: Syn-TurnTurk: A Synthetic Dataset for Turn-Taking Prediction in Turkish Dialogues
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Syn-TurnTurk, a synthetic Turkish dialogue dataset generated using various Qwen Large Language Models (LLMs)<n>We evaluated the dataset using several traditional and deep learning architectures.<n>The results show that advanced models, particularly BI-LSTM and Ensemble (LR+RF) methods, achieve high accuracy (0.839) and AUC scores (0.910)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Managing natural dialogue timing is a significant challenge for voice-based chatbots. Most current systems usually rely on simple silence detection, which often fails because human speech patterns involve irregular pauses. This causes bots to interrupt users, breaking the conversational flow. This problem is even more severe for languages like Turkish, which lack high-quality datasets for turn-taking prediction. This paper introduces Syn-TurnTurk, a synthetic Turkish dialogue dataset generated using various Qwen Large Language Models (LLMs) to mirror real-life verbal exchanges, including overlaps and strategic silences. We evaluated the dataset using several traditional and deep learning architectures. The results show that advanced models, particularly BI-LSTM and Ensemble (LR+RF) methods, achieve high accuracy (0.839) and AUC scores (0.910). These findings demonstrate that our synthetic dataset can have a positive affect for models understand linguistic cues, allowing for more natural human-machine interaction in Turkish.

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