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Thanks Le Guin

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:26:38 +0000

Last week, my wife and I sent a thank you letter to our most favorite writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, for telling all those wonderful stories. I find it very hard to give a genuine thanks to someone I never met or know personally. Le Guin was an exception, very easily made. Her approach to [Read more]

News-Sharing Communities in Twitter

admin — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:47:15 +0000

Our latest paper from NECSI examines the follower/followee relationships among news sharers in Twitter. Here is the main figure: [Read more]

Rovereto Twitter N-Gram Corpus

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:21:04 +0000

Rovereto Twitter N-Gram Corpus (RTC) is an n-gram dataset enriched with meta-data such as gender and time of posting. The n-gram corpus is based on 75 million English tweets extracted from a larger sample of 240 million tweets collected from the public stream of Twitter, between December 2010 and July 2011.

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Metallica on Stage

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:35:29 +0000

My metalhead friend Deniz Cem Önduygu wanted to celebrate Metallica's 30th birthday by creating an infographic. This is the end result:

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Computational linguistics resources for Turkish language

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:09:42 +0000

As the title says, here is a list of linguistic resources for Turkish language. Turkish Morphological Parser and Disambiguator Available for research purposes, by Haşim Sak. Another Turkish Morphological Disambiguator By Deniz Yüret. Turkish Natural Language Resources Compilation By Deniz Yüret. Turkish Morphological Analyzer released under GPL By Çağrı Çöltekin. [Read more]

Two Commonsense Datasets

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:38:20 +0000

The commonsense assertions that are rated in Concept Game are released to the public domain: Commonsense dataset Read this post or this paper for details. [Read more]

Two datasets on stereotypical gender expectations

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:04:30 +0000

In our paper titled “Stereotypical gender actions can be extracted from web text”, Marco and I recruited Amazon Turkers to create a gold standard of stereotypical gender expectations of more than 600 actions such as building a snowman, leaving the work early, enjoying power, and feeling lonely. The actions were sampled verb phrases from the [Read more]

Vote shifts in Turkish General Elections

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:03:11 +0000

There have been two general elections in Turkey in the last 5 years. Recently, we (Çilek Ağacı) obtained the vote counts at a district level, and used a technique called ecological inference to guess the vote transfers between the political parties from 2007 to 2011.

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Guessing genders from names

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:51:13 +0000

During my PhD, I needed to guess the genders of Twitter users based on their given names (read this post to see how I used this information). There are two very useful datasets concerning the frequencies of names broken down by gender. They come from US Census Bureau data and US Social Security Administration’s most [Read more]

Political Search Engine

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:12:32 +0000

Political Search Engine (Politik Arama Motoru in Turkish) is a domain-specific search engine -- one that lets you search keywords in the election declarations of the four parties represented in the Turkish Parliament as of 2011.

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