Research on the interplay between language and emotion has shown evidence that the
affective content of words influences their recognition. However, the direction of the effects is …

Multilingual speakers switch between languages in online and spoken communication.
Analyses of large scale multilingual data require automatic language identification at the …

This paper considers the problem of constructing an efficient inverted index for the spoken
term detection (STD) task. More specifically, we construct a deterministic weighted finite …

We present a natural language processing (NLP) platform, namely the “ITU Turkish NLP
Web Service” by the natural language processing group of Istanbul Technical University …

Named entity recognition aims to detect pre-determined entity types in unstructured text.
There is a limited number of studies on this task for low-resource languages such as Turkish …

All languages use individually meaningless, contrastive categories in combination to create
distinct words. Despite their central role in communication, these “phoneme” contrasts can …

This study examines the extent to which complex inflectional patterns found in Turkish, a
language with a rich agglutinating morphology, can be described as formulaic. It is found …

This paper summarizes our recent efforts for building a Turkish Broadcast News transcription
and retrieval system. The agglutinative nature of Turkish leads to a high number of out-of …

Having sufficient resources for language X lifts it from the under-resourced languages class,
but not necessarily from the under-researched class. In this paper, we address the problem …

In this study, we present TURead, an eye movement dataset of silent and oral sentence
reading in Turkish, an agglutinative language with a shallow orthography understudied in …