BACKGROUND The Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) is originally a Dutch 50 item questionnaire developed in primary care to assess distress, depression, anxiety and somatization. We aimed to develop and validate a Turkish translation of the 4DSQ. METHODS The questionnaire was translated using forward and backward translation, and pilot testing. Turkish 4DSQ-data were collected in 35...

BACKGROUND This study examined ethnic differences in ageing perceptions of migrant Turkish and native Dutch elders residing in Rotterdam, and explored whether such differences could be attributed to culture or resources (personal, physical, economic and/or social). METHODS This study was based on combined data from two research projects focusing on the health and well-being of community-dwell...

There is a growing recognition of the need to examine religiousness and conduct research on its influence on acculturation and adjustment among ethnic minorities (Güngör et al. in Int J Behav Dev 36:367-373, 2012. doi:10.1177/0165025412448357). The present study compares Turkish minority youth in Bulgaria and Germany by examining relationships among religious identity, acculturation orientation...

We describe the Marmara Turkish Coreference Corpus, which is an annotation of the whole METU-Sabanci Turkish Treebank with mentions and coreference chains. Collecting nine or more independent annotations for each document allowed for fully automatic adjudication. We provide a baseline system for Turkish mention detection and coreference resolution and evaluate it on the corpus.

BACKGROUND Studies have shown a clear relationship between depressive disorders and vitamin B12 deficiency. Gastroenteritis and Helicobacter pylori infections can cause vitamin B12 deficiency. Helicobacter pylori infections are not uncommon among people of Turkish descent in The Netherlands. AIM To examine the frequency of vitamin B12 deficiency in depressive patients of Turkish descent and c...

BACKGROUND Aging perceptions have been found to be major contributors to health in old age. To quantitatively explore aging perceptions among elderly Turkish migrants, valid and reliable Turkish-language instruments are needed. The objective of the current study was to examine the construct validity and reliability of the Turkish-language version of the seven-dimension Aging Perceptions Questio...

Hb E-Saskatoon and Hb G-Coushatta are rare hemoglobin variants that are not a health problem. Herein we present a Turkish woman that was diagnosed as homozygous Hb E-Saskatoon (only the second such case reported from Turkey) and a Turkish boy diagnosed as heterozygote Hb E-Saskatoon. Additionally, 2 Turkish sisters diagnosed as heterozygote Hb G-Coushatta are presented.

Turkish is an agglutinative language with rich morphology-syntax interactions. As an extension of this property, the Turkish Treebank is designed to represent sublexical dependencies, which brings extra challenges to parsing raw text. In this work, we use a joint POS tagging and parsing approach to parse Turkish raw text, and we show it outperforms a pipeline approach. Then we experiment with i...

Although Turkish is a significant language with over 60 million native speakers, its cryptographic characteristics are relatively unknown. In this paper, some language patterns and frequencies of Turkish (such as letter frequency profile, letter contact patterns, most frequent digrams, trigrams and words, common word beginnings and endings, vowel/consonant patterns, etc.) relevant to informatio...

All permutations of a two level embedding sentence in Turkish is analyzed, in order to develop an LTAG grammar that can account for Turkish long distance dependencies. The fact that Turkish allows only long distance topicalization and extraposition is shown to be connected to a condition-the coherence condition-that draws the boundary between the acceptable and inacceptable permutations of the ...