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...

BACKGROUND Morbid obesity can be a life threatening condition. The aim of our study is to assess the trend in morbid obesity in The Netherlands among children of Dutch origin since 1980, and among children of Turkish and Moroccan origin since 1997. METHODS AND FINDINGS Cross-sectional height and weight data of children of Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan origin aged 2-18 years were selected from t...

INTRODUCTION The Sexual Health Outcomes in Women Questionnaire (SHOW-Q) is designed to evaluate the sexual life of women for satisfaction, orgasm, desire, and pelvic problem interference. The SHOW-Q is important for evaluating worsening of sexual life for patients with pelvic problems and the management of these women to improve their sexual life. AIMS To validate the Turkish versions of the ...

Sentiment analysis aims to extract the sentiment polarity of given segment of text. Polarity resources that indicate the sentiment polarity of words are commonly used in different approaches. While English is the richest language in regard to having such resources, the majority of other languages, including Turkish, lack polarity resources. In this work we present the first comprehensive Turkis...

The Turkish language belongs to the Turkic family. All members of this family are close to one another in terms of linguistic structure. Typological similarities are vowel harmony, verb-final word order and agglutinative morphology. This latter property causes a very fast vocabulary growth resulting in a large number of out-of-vocabulary words. In this paper we describe our first experiments in...

In autumn 2003, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan declared: “The European Union is our national goal”. Since Spring 2002, two extensive constitutional amendments and eight harmonization packages, which imply fundamental changes in domestic policy and throughout Turkish society, were enforced. Prior to the start of the EU accession negotiations in October 2005 two thirds of the Turkish population s...