KeNet: A COMPREHENSIVE TURKISH WORDNET AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN TEXT CLUSTERING
Razieh Ehsani · Akademik Açık Erişim (Işık Üniversitesi) · 2018
In this thesis, we summarize the methodology and the results of our efforts to construct a comprehensive WordNet for Turkish.Most languages have access to comprehensive language resources.Traditional resources like bilingual dictionaries, monolingual dictionaries, thesauri and lexicons are developed by lexicographers.As computer processing of languages gain popularity, a new set of resources become necessary.One such resource is WordNet which was initially constructed for English language in Princeton University.A WordNet contains much of the information contained in a classic dictionary, but it also contains additional relationship information.These relations go beyond synonym relation and give information about relations such as a word being"is-a" or "is-a-part-of" another.These semantic relations are used in many text analysis tasks.A Word-Net also categorizes words under common concepts.These concepts are called as synsets.As a result of all these, WordNet is a comprehensive dictionary which is readable by the computers and a useful language resource for text analysis and other research based on human language."All that is solid melts into air...", a period of my life is about to be completed, one that I often thought would never end.Dealing with words, dissecting them gave me a liking which, once upon a time, I found in writing.As with most things, this moment would never be possible without the help and support of many people.I have to start with my supervisor Professor Olcay Taner Yıldız who supported me with his positive thinking, smiles and his humble character.Next I would like to thank my advisor Professor Ercan Solak, his help goes beyond this thesis.I would like to thank to him for his kindness, wisdom, patience.Thanks to my jury members for their valuable feedbacks.Many thanks to Anssi Yli-Jyrä for all the hopes and motivations that he gave to me, I really appreciate his kindness and support.Next I would like to thank my family who always encourage me, thanks my father for his inspiring perspective of life