US-Turkey Cooperative Research: A Unified Electronic Lexicon of Turkish

该奖项是对加州大学伯克利分校语言学系Sharon Inkelas教授和土耳其安卡拉Bilkent大学计算机工程系Kemal Oflazer教授的联合研究项目的支持。他们计划利用他们在伯克利和比尔肯特的两个独立研究项目的结果，开发一个宏大的、统一的土耳其语电子词典，其规模将超过这两个独立项目的总和。在这次合作中，他们将决定共同的平台、目标和统一词典的实施。其结果将是一个可上网的数据库，供语言学家(音韵学家、词汇学家、联结学家、语义学家、历史语言学家)、自然语言处理研究人员以及全世界的土耳其语教师和学生使用。范围：两个专家小组已经产生了成功的、不同的但互补的原型，现在将组成一个更大的团队，目标是将他们的成果整合到一个大型数据库中。研究语言的各个方面，特别是土耳其语的研究人员将获得丰富的数据来源，涵盖语音、音位、形态、文本和词源信息。预计该项目将整合和加强向分散在各地的专家传播以前零散提供的信息。该项目将成为其他群体参与保存和传播未被研究的语言的信息的典范。两名研究生，一名来自加州大学伯克利分校，一名来自比尔肯特大学，将参与该项目。这项建议符合INT的目标，即支持美国和外国在互利领域的科学合作。该项目的资金由国际方案司以及行为和认知科学司提供。

0002099InkelasDescription: This award is for support of a joint research project by Professor Sharon Inkelas, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, California and Professor Kemal Oflazer, Department of Computer Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. They plan on utilizing the results of their two independent research projects at Berkeley and at Bilkent to develop a grand, unified electronic lexicon of Turkish language that will be greater than the sum of the two independent projects. During this collaboration they will decide on mutual platforms, goals and implementation of the unified lexicon. The result will be a web-accessible database usable by linguists (phonologists, morphologists, syntacticians, semanticists, historical linguists), natural language processing researchers, and teachers and students of Turkish worldwide.Scope: Two expert teams, having produced successful, different but complementary prototypes, will now form a larger team with the goal of integrating their achievements in one large database. Researchers who work on various aspects of language in general and Turkish in particular will be provided with a rich source of data covering phonetic, phonological, morphological, textual and etymological information. The project is expected to integrate, and enhance dissemination, of information that was previously available piecemeal, and to widely scattered experts. The project will serve as a model for participation by other groups, in the preservation and dissemination of information of understudied languages. Two graduate students, one from UC Berkeley and one from Bilkent University will participate in the project. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting US-foreign scientific collaboration in areas of mutual benefit. Funding for this project is provided by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.