Poems are essential in art and vital organs in literature. Similarly, surgery (and neurosurgery) is also regarded to be an art in medicine. From Hippocrates to nowadays, there is a debate on whether medicine -especially surgery- is a kind of an art or a field of science or a combination of both. This close relation becomes clearer during the practice of surgery, especially in neurosurgery. Here...

the purpose of the study was to detect the alui and ddei polymorphisms within pou1f1 gene exon 6 and 3'utr region in turkish sheep breeds, and their association with milk productive traits. jugular blood samples were collected from 50 sakiz, 50 white karaman, and 50 awassi sheep using edta as an anticoagulant. pcr-rflp and sequencing analysis were performed to investigate possible polymorphisms...

In this paper, we report on the annotation procedures we developed for annotating the Turkish Discourse Bank (TDB), an effort that extends the Penn Discourse Tree Bank (PDTB) annotation style by using it for annotating Turkish discourse. After a brief introduction to the TDB, we describe the annotation cycle and the annotation scheme we developed, defining which parts of the scheme are an exten...

This paper describes a multi-word expression processor for preprocessing Turkish text for various language engineering applications. In addition to the fairly standard set of lexicalized collocations and multi-word expressions such as named-entities, Turkish uses a quite wide range of semi-lexicalized and non-lexicalized collocations. After an overview of relevant aspects of Turkish, we present...

In this study, we analyzed the effects of applying different levels of stemming approaches such as fixed-length word truncation and morphological analysis for multi-document summarization (MDS) on Turkish, which is an agglutinative and morphologically rich language. We constructed a manually annotated MDS data set, and to our best knowledge, reported the first results on Turkish MDS. Our result...

We determined the pattern and severity of symptoms in Turkish and German depressed inpatients. Psychopathological and somatic symptoms were documented on standardized rating scales of the Association for Methodology and Documentation in Psychiatry (AMDP) System. Of a total sample of 6000 inpatients admitted to the Psychiatric Department of the Free University of Berlin from 1981 to 1989, 28 Tur...

This paper presents the design and the implementation of a morphological analyzer for Turkish. A new methodology is proposed for doing the analysis of Turkish words with an affix stripping approach and without using any lexicon. The rule-based and agglutinative structure of the language allows Turkish to be modeled with finite state machines (FSMs). In contrast to the previous works, in this st...

A pronoun resolution system which requires limited syntactic knowledge to identify the antecedents of personal and reflexive pronouns in Turkish is presented. As in its counterparts for languages like English, Spanish and French, the core of the system is the constraints and preferences determined empirically. In the evaluation phase, it performed considerably better than the baseline algorithm...

This study essentially aims at investigating the link between strategy choice and operational performance of Turkish companies. To this end, a number of key competitive priorities were identified in order to examine the tendency of Turkish companies towards creating differentiation-based competitive advantage. Deriving from 519 Turkish companies’ survey results, the effect of this strategy choi...