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20202025
most citedLongForm: Effective Instruction Tuning with Reverse Instructions

11 citations · 22 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2025

Do We Know What LLMs Don't Know? A Study of Consistency in Knowledge Probing

Raoyuan Zhao, Abdullatif Köksal, Ali Modarressi +2

The reliability of large language models (LLMs) is greatly compromised by their tendency to hallucinate, underscoring the need for precise identification of knowledge gaps within L…

cs.CL2025

TUMLU: A Unified and Native Language Understanding Benchmark for Turkic Languages

Jafar Isbarov, Arofat Akhundjanova, Mammad Hajili +13

Being able to thoroughly assess massive multi-task language understanding (MMLU) capabilities is essential for advancing the applicability of multilingual language models. However,…

cs.CL2024

How far can bias go? Tracing bias from pretraining data to alignment

Marion Thaler, Abdullatif Köksal, Alina Leidinger +2

As LLMs are increasingly integrated into user-facing applications, addressing biases that perpetuate societal inequalities is crucial. While much work has gone into measuring or mi…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating Morphological Compositional Generalization in Large Language Models

Mete Ismayilzada, Defne Circi, Jonne Sälevä +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in various natural language generation and understanding tasks. However, their linguistic generalization capabil…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MURI: High-Quality Instruction Tuning Datasets for Low-Resource Languages via Reverse Instructions

Abdullatif Köksal, Marion Thaler, Ayyoob Imani +3

Instruction tuning enhances large language models (LLMs) by aligning them with human preferences across diverse tasks. Traditional approaches to create instruction tuning datasets…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation

Ingo Ziegler, Abdullatif Köksal, Desmond Elliott +1

Building high-quality datasets for specialized tasks is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process that often requires specialized domain knowledge. We propose Corpus Retrieva…

cs.CL2024

SYNTHEVAL: Hybrid Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with Synthetic CheckLists

Raoyuan Zhao, Abdullatif Köksal, Yihong Liu +3

Traditional benchmarking in NLP typically involves using static held-out test sets. However, this approach often results in an overestimation of performance and lacks the ability t…

cs.CL2024

TurkishMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Turkish

Arda Yüksel, Abdullatif Köksal, Lütfi Kerem Şenel +2

Multiple choice question answering tasks evaluate the reasoning, comprehension, and mathematical abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing benchmarks employ automat…

cs.CL2024

Consistent Document-Level Relation Extraction via Counterfactuals

Ali Modarressi, Abdullatif Köksal, Hinrich Schütze

Many datasets have been developed to train and evaluate document-level relation extraction (RE) models. Most of these are constructed using real-world data. It has been shown that…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

MemLLM: Finetuning LLMs to Use An Explicit Read-Write Memory

Ali Modarressi, Abdullatif Köksal, Ayyoob Imani +2

While current large language models (LLMs) perform well on many knowledge-related tasks, they are limited by relying on their parameters as an implicit storage mechanism. As a resu…

cs.CL2024

Hybrid Human-LLM Corpus Construction and LLM Evaluation for Rare Linguistic Phenomena

Leonie Weissweiler, Abdullatif Köksal, Hinrich Schütze

Argument Structure Constructions (ASCs) are one of the most well-studied construction groups, providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the usefulness of Construction Grammar (…

cs.CL2023

Sociocultural knowledge is needed for selection of shots in hate speech detection tasks

Antonis Maronikolakis, Abdullatif Köksal, Hinrich Schütze

We introduce HATELEXICON, a lexicon of slurs and targets of hate speech for the countries of Brazil, Germany, India and Kenya, to aid training and interpretability of models. We de…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Language-Agnostic Bias Detection in Language Models with Bias Probing

Abdullatif Köksal, Omer Faruk Yalcin, Ahmet Akbiyik +3

Pretrained language models (PLMs) are key components in NLP, but they contain strong social biases. Quantifying these biases is challenging because current methods focusing on fill…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

LongForm: Effective Instruction Tuning with Reverse Instructions

Abdullatif Köksal, Timo Schick, Anna Korhonen +1

Instruction tuning enables language models to more effectively generalize and better follow user intent. However, obtaining instruction data is costly and challenging. Prior work e…

cs.CL2022

MEAL: Stable and Active Learning for Few-Shot Prompting

Abdullatif Köksal, Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze

Few-shot classification has made great strides due to foundation models that, through priming and prompting, are highly effective few-shot learners. However, this approach has high…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

The Better Your Syntax, the Better Your Semantics? Probing Pretrained Language Models for the English Comparative Correlative

Leonie Weissweiler, Valentin Hofmann, Abdullatif Köksal +1

Construction Grammar (CxG) is a paradigm from cognitive linguistics emphasising the connection between syntax and semantics. Rather than rules that operate on lexical items, it pos…

cs.CL2022

SilverAlign: MT-Based Silver Data Algorithm For Evaluating Word Alignment

Abdullatif Köksal, Silvia Severini, Hinrich Schütze

Word alignments are essential for a variety of NLP tasks. Therefore, choosing the best approaches for their creation is crucial. However, the scarce availability of gold evaluation…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Balancing Methods for Multi-label Text Classification with Long-Tailed Class Distribution

Yi Huang, Buse Giledereli, Abdullatif Köksal +2

Multi-label text classification is a challenging task because it requires capturing label dependencies. It becomes even more challenging when class distribution is long-tailed. Res…

cs.CL2020

The RELX Dataset and Matching the Multilingual Blanks for Cross-Lingual Relation Classification

Abdullatif Köksal, Arzucan Özgür

Relation classification is one of the key topics in information extraction, which can be used to construct knowledge bases or to provide useful information for question answering.…

cs.IR2020

Vapur: A Search Engine to Find Related Protein-Compound Pairs in COVID-19 Literature

Abdullatif Köksal, Hilal Dönmez, Rıza Özçelik +2

Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) created dire consequences globally and triggered an intense scientific effort from different domains. The resulting publications created a hu…

cs.CL2020

Resources for Turkish Dependency Parsing: Introducing the BOUN Treebank and the BoAT Annotation Tool

Utku Türk, Furkan Atmaca, Şaziye Betül Özateş +6

In this paper, we introduce the resources that we developed for Turkish dependency parsing, which include a novel manually annotated treebank (BOUN Treebank), along with the guidel…