The Natural Languge Processing Group

The NLP Group at Fatih University, Department of Computer Engineering consists of faculty members, graduates, and students who are studying and researching on the subject especially for Turkish and other Turkic Languages.

After a 2 years of effort, finally the first publicly available syntactic parser for Turksih, Fatih Parser, is ready to serve on Internet.

The project has started as a master of science thesis and there is much more to be done yet. When it is considered that sentence analysis is a tough job for even humans, it not hard to guess that making computers do this job is not trivial.

However despite the ongoing work about sentence parsing for Turkish from the early 90s to-day, there has been no software/tool that is publicly available to everyone. So we can say that Fatih Parser is a good start. Or at least no too bad

We hope the project to become beneficial for new research on the area.

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After having some editings on the previos list, version 1.1 of the list is ready:

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Seminars and other activities will also be announced on this web site under news category.

After a long period, Grup’s web site has been entirely revised and updated.

What’s new:

• Bilingual content in Turkish and English
• Pages have been revised. Some has been removed and some has been added.
• Content for these pages has been prepared.
• New posts have been added
• Posts and Pages that doesn’t exist in other language have been translated.
• Theme and appearance have been optimized.
• Theme has been translated in to Turkish.
• New categories have been created
• SEO optimization has been done.
• Contact pages are ready.
• Some academic articles and thesis have been published as PDF.
• Finally, many usefull links have been grouped under links page.

So, we are ready to go…

Stopwords are frequently used, contex free words in a language such as conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions,  numerals,  stereotyped abbreviations etc.

A basic 216 words long stopword list is prepared for Turkish Language:

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