This paper describes the current state of the Turkish Discourse Bank, the first publicly available annotated discourse resource for Turkish. It describes the annotation methods and the challenges posed by annotating Turkish, a free word order language with rich morphology. It shows the usefulness of the PDTB style annotation but points out the need to expand this annotation style with the needs...

1 Turkish Ministry of Health Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara Turkey 2 Turkish Ministry of Health Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey. 3 Başkent University Ankara Hospital, Ankara Turkey 4 Turkish Ministry of Health Dr.A.Y. Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital. Ankara Turkey 5 Retired Radiation Oncologist. Ankara Turkey Case Report American Jo...

This essay is built on the recognition that analyses of contemporary Turkish politics are all too often framed by a binary logic which misrepresents processes afoot in the country. It begins by considering the relevance and limitations of three modes of binary thinking about Turkish politics—the East-West binary, the secularist-Islamist binary, and the centerperiphery binary. It builds on this ...

STUDY DESIGN A reliability and validity study of a translated, culturally adapted questionnaire. OBJECTIVE The aims of the present study were to translate the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (QDS) into Turkish, to perform its cross-cultural adaptation for Turkish patients with LBP, and to investigate its validity and test-retest reliability. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA As a widely used sca...

DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSLATION MEMORY SYSTEM FOR TURKISH TO ENGLISH This thesis studies on translation memory systems and development of a translation memory system on Turkish to English. A translation memory system is a tool that is designed for helping human translators during translation. It uses a database that consists of text parts such as blocks, paragraphs, sentences, or phrases in one la...

Democratic debate has undergone a structural transformation due to the rise of Internet, social media and online communities. Scholars political communication have sought diagnose threat that these changes pose by theorising “filter bubbles” “echo chambers.” Responding growing desire on part policymakers react trends uphold democratic values, we draw empirical analyses discourse consider diffic...

We present growth curves of 1,726 Turkish children with Down syndrome (DS) between 0 and 18 years of age and investigate the factors that affect growth including congenital heart disease (CHD) and hypothyroidism. Longitudinal measurements of height, weight, and head circumference (HC) were assessed and accompanying major malformations were recorded. Growth curves were monitored using Cole's LMS...

OBJECTIVE There were two aims of the present study. The first aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Metacognition Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (MCQ-C) among Turkish children and adolescents. The second aim was to analyze relationships between metacognitive processes, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms among Turkish children and adolescents. METHOD Four h...

Objective: Chronotype refers to the time of the day that a person’s physical and cognitive functions are active. Simply this is a circadian phase preference of a person. While some of the people are morning active (so called larks ) others are more active at nights (The owls). The study of circadian rhythms, known as chronobiology, is all about the metabolic and psychiatric differences between ...

Turkish is a highly inflectional language that represents an interesting challenge to traditional corpus processing techniques. We present here the design of a basic module that allows NooJ users to lemmatize and perform morphological analysis on Turkish texts.