Cross-Lingual and Cross-Chronological Information Access to Multilingual Historical Documents

In this chapter, we present our work in realizing information access across different languages and periods. Nowadays, digital collections of historical documents have to handle materials written in many different languages in different time periods. Even in a particular language, there are significant differences over time in terms of grammar, vocabulary and script. Our goal is to develop a method to access digital collections in a wide range of periods from ancient to modern. We introduce an information extraction method for digitized ancient Mongolian historical manuscripts for reducing labour-intensive analysis. The proposed method performs computerized analysis on Mongolian historical documents. Named entities such as personal names and place names are extracted by employing support vector machine. The extracted named entities are utilized to create a digital edition that reflects an ancient Mongolian historical manuscript written in traditional Mongolian script. The Text Encoding Initiative guidelines are adopted to encode the named entities, transcriptions and interpretations of ancient words. A web-based prototype system is developed for utilizing digital editions of ancient Mongolian historical manuscripts as scholarly tools. The proposed prototype has the capability to display and search traditional Mongolian text and its transliteration in Latin letters along with the highlighted named entities and the scanned images of the source manuscript

Mongolia: social and economic issues

Çevrimiçi (II, 157 Sayfa : resim, tablo ; 26 cm.)Along with the interest in general Turkish history, the interest in the history, language and culture of the Mongols has also increased; researchers who prefer this field as a field of specialization have increased. Especially in recent years, Turkish and Mongolian academics have carried out joint studies, workshops and conferences in the field of history, language and culture, and shared them with the scientific world. This historical interest in the Mongols and the geography of Mongolia has also triggered the interest in the contemporary life, social and economic situation of Mongolia. Izmir Katip Celebi University has also cooperated with Mongolian universities to bring academicians and students of the two countries closer. The book of Relations between Turkey and Mongolia in the 21st Century published by our university is also a good example of collaborative work. Our University, which continues its desire to carry out such studies with Mongolian academics, has decided to publish the book Mongolia: Social and Economic Issues as a result of this. The present work consists of 15 different studies on the contemporary social and economic situation of Mongolia, as well as Mongolian history and culture. In these studies, all of which were written by Mongolian researchers, the social and economic situation of Mongolia is discussed with data and analysis. We would like to thank the researchers who contributed to this book with their work

International conference "Information technologies in education in the 21st century": Conference proceedings.

Proceedings of a conference which concluded TEMPUS project JEP 25008_200

Introduction (to Special Issue on Tibetan Natural Language Processing)

This introduction surveys research on Tibetan NLP, both in China and in the West, as well as contextualizing the articles contained in the special issue