The studies on dependency parsing of Turkish so far gave their results on the Turkish Dependency Treebank. This treebank consists of gold standard sentences where part-of-speech tags are manually assigned to each word and the words forming multi word expressions are also manually determined and combined into single units. For the first time, we investigate the results of parsing Turkish sentenc...

This paper discusses the views of Turkish and British novice teachers on pedagogy and pedagogical relationships with school students when confronted with the pedagogical practices of the 'Other'. Experiences of those practices were gained by novice teachers during an exchange visit for British and Turkish university students in 2008-2009. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus grou...

Recently, due to the increasing popularity of social media, the necessity for extracting information from informal text types, such as microblog texts, has gained significant attention. In this study, we focused on the Named Entity Recognition (NER) problem on informal text types for Turkish. We utilized a semi-supervised learning approach based on neural networks. We applied a fast unsupervise...

For a language learner, any new word is a pseudoword. A pseudoword is a string of of letters or phonemes that sounds like an existing word in a language, though it has no meaning in the lexicon. On the other hand, speakers are well aware of permissible phonemes, their frequencies and collocations in their language due to the phonotactics inherent in the language. For example, saktal is a pseudo...

Turkish is one of the widely used and relatively difficult natural language for machine processing. One of the challenges in Turkish is the temporal logic and processing the time of events. For the Latin family natural languages, there are quite successful solutions like TimeML which is built on the Reichenbach tense analysis and Allen‟s temporal logic. Unfortunately, there is no previous work ...

BACKGROUND We examined ethnic differences between levels of body mass index (BMI) based on self-reported and measured body height and weight and the validity of self-reports used to estimate the prevalence of obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2) in Turkish, Moroccan, and Dutch people in the Netherlands. Furthermore, we investigated whether BMI levels and the prevalence of obesity in Turkish and Moroccan peop...

Background. Following the successful outcomes of the national team, that finished third in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and the positive club performance in the UEFA competitions at the beginning of the new millennium, Turkish football was expected to reaffirm and further develop in the following years, exploiting also the favorable economic conditions. However, its growth and evolution did not mee...

turkish words in the texts of persian language and literature show the deep and long relations between two languages. and because the diwan-e-hafiz (hafiz’s complete works), in which the persian lyric poetry achieves its most flourishing perfection, is not an exception, some of its 35 turkish words are going to be surveyed to determine their morphophonemic in this paper. hoping to be considered...

Paraphrasing is expressing the same semantic content using different linguistic means. Although previous work has addressed linguistic variations at different levels of language, paraphrasing in Turkish has not been yet thoroughly studied. This paper presents the first study towards Turkish paraphrase alignment. We perform an analysis of different types of paraphrases on a modest Turkish paraph...

An intelligent natural language interface based on Turkish Language is designed for creating Java class skeleton, listing the class and its members. This interface is developed as a part of a project named as TUJA, a tool for producing Java programs using Turkish sentences. Turkish sentences are converted into instances of schemata, representing classes and their members. Concept hierarchies ar...