Journal Articles

  • Bakay, Ö., Akkuş, F., Staub, A., & Dillon, B. (Submitted). Structurally prominent linguistic items hold a privileged state in working memory: Time-course evidence for rapid access. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Akkuş, F., & Dillon, B. (2026). Hierarchical relations guide memory retrieval in sentence comprehension: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish. Journal of Memory and Language, 148, 104747. link

  • Deniz, N. D., Bakay, Ö., & Deniz, C. M. (2026). Subject–verb agreement by Turkish speakers of English: Differential cue-weighting in L1 and L2 and distinct mechanisms for comprehension and production. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–12. link

  • Deniz, N. D., Bakay, Ö., & Kurt, D. (2023). (Reversed) Mismatch Asymmetry in English Subject-Verb Agreement. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi [Journal of Linguistics Research], 34(1), 1–26. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Avar, B. & Yıldız, O. T. (2019). A tree-based approach for English-to-Turkish translation. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 27(1), 437-452. link

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • Bakay, Ö., Yıldız, O. K., Bhatt, R., Dillon, B., & Yıldız, O. T. (2026). From Dependency to CCG to Incremental CCG: Approaches for flexible word order in Turkish. Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pp. 601-612. link

  • Türk, U., Neu, E., Bakay, Ö., Dillon, B., & Jarosz, G. (2026). Frequency modulates structural choice in Turkish suspended affixation: a latent-process account. Proceedings of the 9th Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), pp. 343-352. link

  • Bakay, Ö., & Akkuş, F. (To appear). Experimental evidence for partial conjunct agreement in Turkish. Proceedings of the 61st Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS). link

  • Bakay, Ö., & Oğuz, M. (2024). Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in contact with Turkic (Tu+), pp. 1-15. link

  • Öksal, C., Oğuz, H. N., Bakay, Ö., & Yıldız, O. T. (2022). Time Travel in Turkish: WordNets for Modern Turkish. Proceedings of Globalex Workshop on Linked Lexicography within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 75–84. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Ergelen, Ö., Sarmış, E., Yıldırım, S., Arıcan, B. N., Kocabalcıoğlu, A., Özçelik, M., Sanıyar, E., Kuyrukçu, O., Avar, B., & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). Turkish WordNet KeNet. Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC), pp. 166–174. link

  • Özçelik, M., Arıcan, B. N., Bakay, Ö., Sarmış, E., Ergelen, Ö., Bayezit, N. G., & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). HisNet: A Polarity Lexicon based on wordnet for Emotion Analysis. Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC), pp. 157–165. link

  • Kara, N., Aslan, D. B., Marşan, B., Bakay, Ö., Ak, K., & Yıldız, O. T. (2020). TRopBank: Turkish PropBank V2.0. Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 2763–2772. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Ergelen, Ö., & Yıldız, O. T. (2019). Integrating Turkish WordNet KeNet to Princeton WordNet: The Case of One-to-Many Correspondences. Proceedings of the 5th Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference (ASYU), pp. 1-5. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Ergelen, Ö., & Yıldız, O. T. (2019). Problems Caused by Semantic Drift in WordNet Synset Construction. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), pp. 1-5. link

  • Arıcan, B. N., Bakay, Ö., Avar, B., Yıldız, O. T., & Ergelen, Ö. (2019). English-Turkish Parallel Semantic Annotation of Penn-Treebank. Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC), pp. 298–306. link

  • Bakay, Ö., Avar, B., & Yıldız, O. T. (2019). Comparing Sense Categorization Between English PropBank and English WordNet. Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC), pp. 307–314. link

  • Özçelik, R., Uludoğan, G., Parlar, S., Bakay, Ö., Ergelen, Ö., & Yıldız, O. T. (2019). User Interface for Turkish Word Network KeNet. Proceedings of the 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1-4. link

  • Ak, K., Bakay, Ö., & Yıldız, O. T. (2018). Comparison of Turkish Proposition Banks by Frame Matching. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), pp. 352-356. link