Please contact me for handouts or slides at obakay@umass.edu.

Psycholinguistics

(2023) The role of structural cues and recency in processing a preverbal anaphor in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Faruk Akkuş and Brian Dillon at the 29th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain. [poster]

(2023) Predicting disjoint reference: offline and online evidence. Poster presentation w/ Jon Burnsky, Maayan Keshev, Mariam Asatryan, Kyle Johnson and Brian Dillon at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), University of Pittsburgh. [poster] [abstract].

(2022) Logophoric readings in long-distance binding of Turkish reflexives. Talk at ECO-5,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(2022) C-command effects in binding third-person reflexives and pronoun in Turkish. Poster presentation w/ Brian Dillon at the 35^th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), UC Santa Cruz (poster presentation at the satellite event at the University of Maryland). [slides] [abstract]

(2021) Case interference and phrase length effects in processing Turkish center-embeddings. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz at the 34^th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania. [slides] [abstract]

(2021) The role of animacy in processing ditransitive verbs in Turkish [in Turkish]. Virtual talk w/ Didem Kurt at the 34^th National Linguistics Congress (UDK) in Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

(2021) An investigation of late closure in adverb attachment preferences of L1 and L2 speakers of Turkish. Virtual talk w/ Dr. Ayse Gürel at the 20^th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) in Eskisehir, Turkey.

(2020) Missing-verb illusion in Turkish center-embeddings? An investigation of case interference and phrase lengths. Virtual poster presentation w/ Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz at the 24^th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) Conference, University of Potsdam. [slides] [abstract]

NLP in Turkish

(2021) Turkish WordNet KeNet. Virtual paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen, Elif Sarmış, Selin Yıldırım, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Atilla Kocabalcıoğlu, Merve Özçelik, Ezgi Sanıyar, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Begüm Avar and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the 11^th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC).

(2019) Integrating Turkish Wordnet KeNet to Princeton WordNet: The Case of One-to-Many Correspondences. Paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU), in Izmir, Turkey.

(2019) Problems Caused by Semantic Drift in WordNet Synset Construction. Paper presentation w/ Özlem Ergelen and Olcay Taner Yıldız at the 4^th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), in Samsun, Turkey.