SEMANTIC CATEGORIZATION OF TURKISH LANGUAGE ELEMENTS
Onur Güngör · 2006
In this project, we present a heuristic algorithm to build a hierarchy with the links being the hypernymy relations between the nouns in a dictionary. After obtaining an electronic version of TDK dictionary and surveying the literature on this subject, we have designed and implemented the algorithm. The main rules used in the heuristic can be divided into three groups which are rules that determine the hypernyms according to noun's surface form, rules that do so according to the noun's category indicated in the dictionary and rules that do so according to the content of the definition. The translations of the top nodes of WordNet are used to obtain a tree which can present most of the words and several levels of hierarchy. There are some inadequacies of the hierarchy due to the style of the definitions in the dictionary. These are explained in the evaluation section. ii