Published in Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026, Main), 2026
We introduce the Visual Iconicity Challenge, a benchmark for evaluating whether vision–language models can map iconic form–meaning relationships in sign languages, revealing significant limitations in current VLMs.
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Published in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC @ NAACL 2025), 2025
We develop NLP resources for Hamshentsnag, a critically endangered Armenian dialect, using cognate-based and contact-induced transfer learning strategies.
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Published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL @ NAACL 2025), 2025
We test good-enough parsing in Turkish using anomalous role-reversal sentences, comparing human and LLM comprehension strategies.
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Published in Empirical Insights into Language and Cognition (Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık), 2025
We investigate task effects in good-enough parsing in Turkish using role-reversal sentences, demonstrating how comprehension tasks influence the depth of syntactic processing.
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Published in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP @ ACL 2024), 2024
We fine-tune LLaMA-2 for domain-specific tasks in economic research, including title generation, abstract classification, and academic question answering.
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Published in 2024 32nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2024), 2024
We compare LLM and human sentence comprehension, investigating whether LLMs exhibit superficial language processing patterns similar to good-enough processing in humans.
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Published in 31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2023), 2023
We use pose estimation to automatically detect reference tracking strategies in Turkish Sign Language narratives.
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Published in Journal of Pragmatics, 2023
We investigated the reference tracking strategies among deaf adults with signing deaf parents (DoD) and adult deaf signers with non-signing hearing parents or caregivers (DoH) who had late exposure to Turkish Sign Language.
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Published in Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja, 2022
We examined data from six adult native signers of TİD and found that TİD signers mainly used nominals for reintroduced aboutness subject topics.
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Published in Language Acquisition, 2022
Using a free-recall paradigm, we explored the effects of age of acquisition and category size on verbal fluency in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
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Published in A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD) (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 2020
In this paper, we examine various types of new information (Focus), and constituents that convey what the sentence is about (Topic) in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
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