Zeynep Hilal Kilimci

Mapping the Emotional Landscape of Voter Behavior: A Transformer-Based Sentiment Analysis of Reddit Discourse in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

This study examines voter behavior in the context of the 2024 United States Presidential Election by analyzing Reddit user comments. Owing to the platform’s anonymity and community diversity, Reddit provides signals that reflect a wide range of socio-demographic perspectives on the electoral process. A dataset of 7,788...

Explainability-Guided Transformer Models for Hourly Cryptocurrency Forecasting: A Comparative Study with SHAP-Based Feature Refinement

Accurate cryptocurrency price forecasting represents an important yet challenging problem in financial time-series analysis due to the highly volatile, nonlinear, and noise-sensitive nature of digital asset markets. Although transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in temporal sequ...

RAG-Powered Financial Trend Analysis System Using Borsa Istanbul Indices