6 papers
The Impact of Editorial Intervention on Detecting Native Language Traces
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Mark Gales, Kate Knill +1
Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) from their non-native writing. With the advent of human-AI co-authorship, learner t…
Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Syntactic Transfer in Bilingual Sentence Production
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Elliot Murphy
We discuss the benefits of incorporating oscillatory neural mechanisms into the study of bilingual production errors and their traditionally documented timing signatures (e.g., eve…
Turkish Native Language Identification V2
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Gerold Schneider
This paper presents the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) for the Turkish language. NLI is the task of automatically identifying an individual's native lang…
Robust Native Language Identification through Agentic Decomposition
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Tannon Kew, Tilia Ellendorff +2
Large language models (LLMs) often achieve high performance in native language identification (NLI) benchmarks by leveraging superficial contextual clues such as names, locations,…
Automatic Lexical Simplification for Turkish
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu
In this paper, we present the first automatic lexical simplification system for the Turkish language. Recent text simplification efforts rely on manually crafted simplified corpora…
Exploring Linguistic Features for Turkish Text Readability
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Gerold Schneider
This paper presents the first comprehensive study on automatic readability assessment of Turkish texts. We combine state-of-the-art neural network models with linguistic features a…