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...

Many Turkish people migrated to Germany between 1955 and 1975. This study was carried out in Göttingen, Germany. Fifty Turkish people (described as patients) were asked about the care they had received from German health care personnel, and 50 German nurses and 50 German physiotherapists were questioned about care they had given to Turkish patients. Significant findings were the needs of the Tu...

The aims of this study were (1) to establish standards for Arnett soft tissue cephalometric analysis of Anatolian Turkish young adults and (2) to identify possible gender differences between males and females. After analysing the cephalometric radiographs of 350 individuals, 133 subjects (67 males, mean age 22.6 +/- 2.2 years, and 66 females, mean age 22.1 +/- 2.6 years) with normal antero-post...

BACKGROUND The reduction in the number of unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics has become one of the most important objectives for primary health care. German GPs report that they are under "pressure to prescribe" antibiotics particularly in consultations with Turkish immigrants. And so a qualitative approach was used to learn more about the socio-medical context of Turkish patients in rega...

AIM The purpose of this study was to evaluate oral health related quality of life (OHRQOL) in Turkish adults attending a dental school by using Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) inventory. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 1324 patients. A modified questionnaire including sociodemographic information, questions about OHRQOL and OIDP inventory was prepared. The questions consist...

This paper provides a century-wide quantitative analysis of the Turkish literature using forty novels of forty authors. We divide the century into four eras or quarter centuries; allocate ten novels to each era, and partition each novel into equal sized blocks. Using cross validation based discriminant analysis, with the most frequent words as discriminators; we achieve a classification rate wi...