OrienTel-Turkish includes telephone speech recordings and annotations of 1700 Turkish speakers balanced in gender, dialect, age and calling environment; approximately one third of calls are over the fixed network and the rest are over the mobile network. Each speaker contributes with 48 items containing digits, digit/number strings, time/date expressions, phonetically rich words and sentences, ...

Kim, Hyung-Soo. 2009. The Full-ta-Partial Reduction in Korean and Turkish Reduplication. Linguistic Research. 26(2), 121-148. Turkish and Korean share the morphological feature of having only suffixation in derivation. Partial reduplications, however, appear to contradict this typological generalization: partial prefixal reduplication has been claimed to exist in both languages, even though suc...

The history of ethno-national conflict on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus has decisively marked the communication process between the major stakeholders in the conflict, but most of all, and in a profound way, between the two Cypriot communities, namely, between Greek Cypriots (G/Cs) and Turkish Cypriots (T/Cs). The so-called Green Line, which ethnically divides the capita...

For more than four decades, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been negotiating in an effort to find a solution to the Cyprus problem. The perspective, assumptions and hypotheses that underpin the respective approaches to the Cyprus problem disclose the general framework that renders understandable the impasse that has characterised the long history of negotiations on Cyprus. The Hels...

Models of innovation take a number of forms, each of which is helpful in highlighting particular aspects and enabling better understanding and practice. There are some models are designed for public organizations in the literature. However, they are not appropriate for Turkish public organizations because dynamics of the innovation process such as drivers, sources, and barriers show significant...

language teacher assessment, like many aspects of second language teacher education, is changing. to understand factors that are driving the change, such as work of teaching generally, language teaching in particular, and the role of teachers’ knowledge in teaching, this study examined language teacher assessment schemes across the globe. the aim was to arrive at a set of shared beliefs, attitu...

This paper presents a preliminary work on aligning Turkish and English parallel texts towards developing a statistical machine translation system for English and Turkish. To avoid the data sparseness problem and to uncover relations between sublexical components of words such as morphemes, we have converted our parallel texts to a morphemic representation and then used standard word alignment a...

Bu araştırmada Türk Milli Eğitim Sistemi içerisinde 2019 yılı Kasım ayında ilk kez uygulanan ara tatilin güçlü ve zayıf yanlarına ilişkin okul paydaşlarının görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Temel nitel araştırma deseninin benimsendiği araştırmanın çalışma grubunu yirmi dokuz katılımcı oluşturmaktadır. Veriler yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu aracılığıyla yüz yüze görüşmelerle elde edi...

We describe the English-Turkish and Turkish-English translation systems submitted by Yandex School of Data Analysis team to WMT16 news translation task. We successfully applied hand-crafted morphological (de-)segmentation of Turkish, syntax-based pre-ordering of English in English-Turkish and post-ordering of English in Turkish-English. We perform desegmentation using SMT and propose a simple y...