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7 papers

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…

cs.CL2026

From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification?

Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek

Light verb constructions (LVCs) are a challenging class of verbal multiword expressions, especially in Turkish, where rich morphology and productive complex predicates create minim…

cs.CL2025

Doğal Dil İşlemede Tokenizasyon Standartları ve Ölçümü: Türkçe Üzerinden Büyük Dil Modellerinin Karşılaştırmalı Analizi

M. Ali Bayram, Ali Arda Fincan, Ahmet Semih Gümüş +3

Tokenization is a fundamental preprocessing step in Natural Language Processing (NLP), significantly impacting the capability of large language models (LLMs) to capture linguistic…