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  • Article
    Mention Detection in Turkish Coreference Resolution
    (Tubitak Scientific & Technological Research Council Turkey, 2024) Demir, Seniz; Akdag, Hanifi Ibrahim
    A crucial step in understanding natural language is detecting mentions that refer to real-world entities in a text and correctly identifying their boundaries. Mention detection is commonly considered a preprocessing step in coreference resolution which is shown to be helpful in several language processing applications such as machine translation and text summarization. Despite recent efforts on Turkish coreference resolution, no standalone neural solution to mention detection has been proposed yet. In this article, we present two models designed for detecting Turkish mentions by using feed-forward neural networks. Both models extract all spans up to a fixed length from input text as candidates and classify them as mentions or not mentions. The models differ in terms of how candidate text spans are represented. The first model represents a span by focusing on its first and last words, whereas the representation also covers the preceding and proceeding words of a span in the second model. Mention span representations are formed by using contextual embeddings, part-of-speech embeddings, and named-entity embeddings of words in interest where contextual embeddings are obtained from pretrained Turkish language models. In our evaluation studies, we not only assess the impact of mention representation strategies on system performance but also demonstrate the usability of different pretrained language models in resolution task. We argue that our work provides useful insights to the existing literature and the first step in understanding the effectiveness of neural architectures in Turkish mention detection.
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    Understanding the Psychological and Financial Correlates for Consumer Credit Use;
    (Sosyoekonomi Society, 2024) Ertuğrul, Seyit; Sayar, Alperen; Şahin, Türkay; Çakar,Tuna; Ertuğru, Seyit
    This study investigated the behavioural and cognitive predictors of consumer credit usage to develop a behavioural credit risk assessment procedure for a factoring company. Participants completed surveys measuring personality traits, self-esteem, material and monetary values, compulsive and impulsive buying tendencies, self-control, and impulsiveness. Financial surveys also assessed financial literacy and knowledge of financial concepts. The results indicated that extraversion, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and experiential self-control were significant predictors of consumer credit usage. These findings suggest that a finance company can use these personality traits and financial characteristics to develop a more accurate and effective credit risk assessment procedure, such as psychometric tests. © 2024, Sosyoekonomi Society. All rights reserved.
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    Neural Coreference Resolution for Turkish
    (2023) Demir, Şeniz
    Coreference resolution deals with resolving mentions of the same underlying entity in a given text. This challenging task is an indispensable aspect of text understanding and has important applications in various language processing systems such as question answering and machine translation. Although a significant amount of studies is devoted to coreference resolution, the research on Turkish is scarce and mostly limited to pronoun resolution. To our best knowledge, this article presents the first neural Turkish coreference resolution study where two learning-based models are explored. Both models follow the mention-ranking approach while forming clusters of mentions. The first model uses a set of hand-crafted features whereas the second coreference model relies on embeddings learned from large-scale pre-trained language models for capturing similarities between a mention and its candidate antecedents. Several language models trained specifically for Turkish are used to obtain mention representations and their effectiveness is compared in conducted experiments using automatic metrics. We argue that the results of this study shed light on the possible contributions of neural architectures to Turkish coreference resolution.
  • Article
    What Is Neuroentrepreneurship? the Theoretical Framework, Critical Evaluation, and Research Program
    (2021) Çakar,Tuna; Girişken, Arzu
    As interest in entrepreneurship research to identify the possible economic development opportunities that entrepreneurs can provide, entrepreneurship research's objective tools are reaching their limits. Researchers in entrepreneurship are striving to discover new techniques and methodologies to answer questions about what makes a person an entrepreneur and perhaps identify and encourage an entrepreneur in the next step. Although a great deal of research has been done to answer these questions scientifically, traditional techniques have failed to produce the desired answers. For this reason, researchers working in the entrepreneurship field have recently been increasingly interested in applying neuroscience methods, especially after the proliferation of research fields such as neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and neuropolitics. Although the population of neuroentrepreneurship research is gradually increasing, we cannot say that the field has been studied theoretically enough yet. In this article, a theoretical definition of neuroentrepreneurship is made, and a scientific framework is tried to be gained on the way to future research.
  • Research Project
    Özyinelemeli Sinir Ağları ile Türkçe Doğal Dil Üretimi
    (TÜBİTAK, 2018) Demir, Şeniz; Gökmen, Muhittin; Gökmen, Muhittin
    İnsanlar arasındaki iletişimi sağlayan doğal diller, zaman içinde insanlarla etkin ve kullanıcı dostu etkileşim kurabilmek amacıyla sistemler ve yazılımlar tarafından kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Tıpkı insanlar gibi sesli veya yazılı doğal dil ifadelerini anlayabilen ve sonrasında kullanıcıların beklentilerini karşılayabilen dil tabanlı teknolojiler (örn. arama motorları, bilgisayar destekli eğitici sistemler ve diyalog sistemleri) bu motivasyonla ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu çalışmalarda, problemin doğası ve hedef dilin yapısındaki zorluklara ek olarak insanların doğal dilleri nasıl öğrendiğini ve kullandığını modellemedeki kısıtlar başarım oranlarını etkilemiştir. Günümüzde, dil tabanlı teknolojiler insanlar tarafından yaygın şekilde kullanılıyor olsalar da (örn. Google Arama Motoru ve Apple Siri), ulaşılan teknolojik seviye hedef dile göre çeşitlilik göstermektedir. Sondan eklemeli ve zengin dil yapısı ile Türkçe geliştirilen teknolojik çözümler ve üretilen veri kaynakları açısından pek çok doğal dilin gerisinde kalmaktadır. Ayrıca, bugüne kadar Türkçe dil teknolojileri konusunda yapılan çalışmaların ağırlıklı olarak dili işleme, anlama ve analiz etmeye dönük (örn. kelimelerin morfolojik analizi, özel isim tespiti, bağlılık çözümlemesi, metin sınıflandırma ve metin özetleme) olduğu gözlemlenmektedir. Türkçe dil üretimi konusunda sınırlı yeteneklere sahip ve akademik seviyede kalarak devamı getirilmemiş birkaç çalışma mevcuttur. Fakat bu çalışmalar karmaşık sayılabilecek dilbilimi teorileri ile ifade edilen içerik ifadelerini cümlelere dönüştürmekten öteye geçmemiştir ve başka uygulamalarla entegre olarak test edilmemiştir. Bu çalışmada, Türkçe dilinin derin öğrenme tabanlı bir sistem (dil aracı) ile otomatik olarak üretimi hedeflenmektedir. Bu sistemin, girdi olarak verilen içerik ifadelerini Türkçe dili kurallarına uygun ve anlaşılır cümlelere dönüştüreceği öngörülmektedir. Literatürdeki en kapsamlı Türkçe dil üretimi sistemi olması planlanan bu çalışmada son yıllarda pek çok dil teknolojisinde başarımı ispat edilmiş diziden diziye öğrenebilen (örn. kelime dizisinden başka bir kelime dizisi) özyinelemeli sinir ağı yapıları kullanılacaktır. Bu ağların sağladığı dinamiklik ile farklı çeşitler (örn. uzun kısa süreli bellek ve girişli özyinelemeli birim) ve genişlemeler (örn. dikkat mekanizması) denenecektir ve başarımı en yüksek sinir ağı mimarisi belirlenecektir. Buna ek olarak, sinir ağlarının kullanımı bazı faktörlerin (örn. bağlam bilgisi ve kullanıcı tercihleri) sisteme entegrasyonuna ve üretim aşamasına olan etkilerinin incelenmesine imkân sağlayacaktır.
  • Article
    Detecting the Effect of Voice-Over in Tv Ads Via Optic Brain Imaging (fnirs) and In-Depth Interview Methods
    (Istanbul Univ, 2016) Çakar, Tuna; Girisken, Yener
    Voice-overs are used extensively to increase the effectiveness of the TV ads especially in the last decade. The main purpose is to provide the brand message via a clear feature that will inevitably grab the attention of the viewers. The current study contains the neuro tests of 12 TV ads in banking and finance sectors on 168 participants in 8 groups. Optic brain imaging (fNIRS) and in-depth interviews were the methodologies utilized during the test of these TV ads. The obtained results indicate that the use of voice-over during the TV ads possibly causes the decrease in attention and emotional engagement levels of the participants.