- Gökhan Tür, Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür, Kemal Oflazer. 1999. A Statistical Information Extraction System for Turkish. Abstract: Information Extraction (IE) is the process of analyzing natural language text or speech, and collecting information about speciied types of entities, relationships, or events, such as marking person, location, and organization names or determining the topic changes. Although in recent years there have been numerous studies in processing Turk-ish text, we are not aware of any studies of developing an IE system for Turkish. Furthermore, neither of these studies on processing Turk-ish text employ statistical techniques due to the problems in nding a training corpus and adapting these techniques to Turkish. As a doctoral thesis, I propose to investigate and develop a statistical information extraction system for Turkish.
