Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2010
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Akif Boynueğri
Danışman: AYŞE NUR BİRTÜRK
Özet:In this thesis, cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) approaches are comparatively evaluated for Turkish and English texts. As a complementary study, knowledge-based methods for word sense disambiguation (WSD), which is one of the most important parts of the CLIR studies, are compared for Turkish words. Query translation and sense indexing based CLIR approaches are used in this study. In query translation approach, we use automatic and manual word sense disambiguation methods and Google translation service during translation of queries. In sense indexing based approach, documents are indexed according to meanings of words instead of words themselves. Retrieval of documents is performed according to meanings of the query words as well. During the identification of intended meaning of query terms, manual and automatic word sense disambiguation methods are used and compared to each other. Knowledge based WSD methods that use different gloss enrichment techniques are compared for Turkish words. Turkish WordNet is used as a primary knowledge base and English WordNet and Turkish Wikipedia are employed as enrichment resources. Meanings of words are more clearly identified by using semantic relations defined in WordNets and Turkish Wikipedia. Also, during calculation of semantic relatedness of senses, cosine similarity metric is used as an alternative metric to word overlap count. Effects of using cosine similarity metric are observed for each WSD methods that use different knowledge bases.