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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Do We Still Need Fine Tuning? Turkish Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Model

Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek

This study examines whether supervised fine-tuning remains necessary for Turkish sentiment analysis in the era of large language models. We compare classical machine learning metho…

cs.CL2026

Supervision versus Demonstration-Based In-Context Learning for Multiword Expression Classification

Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek

Turkish idiomatic light verb constructions (LVCs) are challenging for multiword expression processing because they often share the same surface form as fully literal verb-object co…

cs.CL2026

Benchmarking Source-Sensitive Reasoning in Turkish: Humans and LLMs under Evidential Trust Manipulation

Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek

This paper investigates whether source trustworthiness shapes Turkish evidential morphology and whether large language models (LLMs) track this sensitivity. We study the past-domai…

cs.CL2026

Plausibility as Commonsense Reasoning: Humans Succeed, Large Language Models Do not

Sercan Karakaş

Large language models achieve strong performance on many language tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they integrate world knowledge with syntactic structure in a human-like, str…

cs.CL2026

Transfer Learning for an Endangered Slavic Variety: Dependency Parsing in Pomak Across Contact-Shaped Dialects

Sercan Karakaş

This paper presents new resources and baselines for Dependency Parsing in Pomak, an endangered Eastern South Slavic language with substantial dialectal variation and no widely adop…

cs.CL2026

Clause-Internal or Clause-External? Testing Turkish Reflexive Binding in Adapted versus Chain of Thought Large Language Models

Sercan Karakaş

This study evaluates whether state-of-the-art large language models capture the binding relations of Turkish reflexive pronouns. We construct a balanced evaluation set of 100 Turki…