Asım Ersoy

Research Associate at QCRI

I am a Research Associate at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), working on developing the Agentic side of the Fanar LLM and its Function Calling capability. Previously, I was a senior R&D engineer at Sestek and a senior research engineer at Huawei working on Natural Language Processing. I earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Marmara University, and a master's degree in computer science from Ozyegin University.

Publications

Asım Ersoy, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar, Kareem Darwish (2025). Tool Calling for Arabic LLMs: Data Strategies and Instruction Tuning.
ArabicNLP (co-located with EMNLP 2025).

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Asım Ersoy, Basel Mousi, Shammur Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani (2025). From Words to Waves: Analyzing Concept Formation in Speech and Text-Based Foundation Models.
Interspeech 2025.

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Mounes Zaval, Abdullah İhsanoğlu, Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız (2025). In-Depth Analysis of Arabic-Origin Words in the Turkish Morpholex.
Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (co-located with COLING 2025).

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Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız (2024). Organic Data-Driven Approach for Turkish Grammatical Error Correction and LLMs.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15320.

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Asım Ersoy, Gerson Vizcarra, Tasmiah Tahsin Mayeesha, Benjamin Muller (2023). In What Languages are Generative Language Models the Most Formal? Analyzing Formality Distribution across Languages.
EMNLP Findings 2023.

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Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız, Sedat Özer (2023). ORTPiece: An ORT-based Turkish image captioning network based on transformers and WordPiece.
31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).

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Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız, Sedat Özer (2023). CheckMate: English Grammatical Error Correction for Native Turkish Speakers.
31st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).

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