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    Building the Turkish FrameNet
    (Global WordNet Association, 2021) Marşan, B.; Kara, N.; Özçelik, M.; Arıcan, B. N.; Cesur, N.; Kuzgun, A.; Sanıyar, E.; Yıldız, Olcay Taner; Computer Science; YILDIZ, Olcay Taner
    FrameNet (Lowe, 1997; Baker et al., 1998; Fillmore and Atkins, 1998; Johnson et al., 2001) is a computational lexicography project that aims to offer insight into the semantic relationships between predicate and arguments. Having uses in many NLP applications, FrameNet has proven itself as a valuable resource. The main goal of this study is laying the foundation for building a comprehensive and cohesive Turkish FrameNet that is compatible with other resources like PropBank (Kara et al., 2020) or WordNet (Bakay et al., 2019; Ehsani, 2018; Ehsani et al., 2018; Parlar et al., 2019; Bakay et al., 2020) in the Turkish language.
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    From constituency to UD-Style dependency: Building the first conversion tool of Turkish
    (Incoma Ltd, 2021-09) Kuzgun, A.; Yıldız, O. K.; Cesur, N.; Marşan, B.; Yenice, A. B; Sanıyar, E.; Kuyrukçu, O.; Arıcan, B. N.; Yıldız, Olcay Taner; Computer Science; YILDIZ, Olcay Taner
    This paper deliberates on the process of building the first constituency-to-dependency conversion tool of Turkish. The starting point of this work is a previous study in which 10,000 phrase structure trees were manually transformed into Turkish from the original PennTreebank corpus. Within the scope of this project, these Turkish phrase structure trees were automatically converted into UD-style dependency structures, using both a rule-based algorithm and a machine learning algorithm specific to the requirements of the Turkish language. The results of both algorithms were compared and the machine learning approach proved to be more accurate than the rule-based algorithm. The output was revised by a team of linguists. The refined versions were taken as gold standard annotations for the evaluation of the algorithms. In addition to its contribution to the UD Project with a large dataset of 10,000 Turkish dependency trees, this project also fulfills the important gap of a Turkish conversion tool, enabling the quick compilation of dependency corpora which can be used for the training of better dependency parsers.
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    A learning-based dependency to constituency conversion algorithm for the turkish language
    (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022) Marşan, B.; Yıldız, O. K.; Kuzgun, A.; Yenice, A; Cesur, N.; Yenice, A. B.; Sanıyar, E.; Kuyrukçu, O.; Arıcan, B. N.; Yıldız, Olcay Taner; Computer Science; YILDIZ, Olcay Taner
    This study aims to create the very first dependency-to-constituency conversion algorithm optimised for Turkish language. For this purpose, a state-of-the-art morphologic analyser (Yıldız et al., 2019) and a feature-based machine learning model was used. In order to enhance the performance of the conversion algorithm, bootstrap aggregating meta-algorithm was integrated. While creating the conversation algorithm, typological properties of Turkish were carefully considered. A comprehensive and manually annotated UD-style dependency treebank was the input, and constituency trees were the output of the conversion algorithm. A team of linguists manually annotated a set of constituency trees. These manually annotated trees were used as the gold standard to assess the performance of the algorithm. The conversion process yielded more than 8000 constituency trees whose UD-style dependency trees are also available on GitHub. In addition to its contribution to Turkish treebank resources, this study also offers a viable and easy-to-implement conversion algorithm that can be used to generate new constituency treebanks and training data for NLP resources like constituency parsers.
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    Morpholex Turkish: A morphological lexicon for Turkish
    (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022) Arıcan, B. N.; Kuzgun, A.; Marşan, B.; Aslan, D. B.; Sanıyar, E.; Cesur, N.; Kara, N.; Kuyrukçu, O.; Özçelik, M.; Yenice, A. B.; Doğan, M.; Oksal, C.; Ercan, G.; Yıldız, Olcay Taner; Computer Science; YILDIZ, Olcay Taner
    MorphoLex is a study in which root, prefix and suffixes of words are analyzed. With MorphoLex, many words can be analyzed according to certain rules and a useful database can be created. Due to the fact that Turkish is an agglutinative language and the richness of its language structure, it offers different analyzes and results from previous studies in MorphoLex. In this study, we revealed the process of creating a database with 48,472 words and the results of the differences in language structure.
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    Time travel in Turkish: WordNets for modern Turkish
    (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022) Oksal, C.; Oğuz, H. N.; Çatal, M.; Erbay, N.; Duvarcı, A.; Yüzer, Ö.; Ünsal, İ. B.; Kuyrukçu, O.; Yenice, A. B.; Kuzgun, A.; Marşan, B:; Marşan, B.; Sanıyar, E.; Arıcan, B. N.; Doğan, M.; Bakay, Ö.; Yıldız, Olcay Taner; Computer Science; YILDIZ, Olcay Taner
    Wordnets have been popular tools for providing and representing semantic and lexical relations of languages. They are useful tools for various purposes in NLP studies. Many researches created WordNets for different languages. For Turkish, there are two WordNets, namely the Turkish WordNet of BalkaNet and KeNet. In this paper, we present new WordNets for Turkish each of which is based on one of the first 9 editions of the Turkish dictionary starting from the 1944 edition. These WordNets are historical in nature and make implications for Modern Turkish. They are developed by extending KeNet, which was created based on the 2005 and 2011 editions of the Turkish dictionary. In this paper, we explain the steps in creating these 9 new WordNets for Turkish, discuss the challenges in the process and report comparative results about the WordNets.