Morphological analysis in natural language processing for Turkish language and a new approach for lexicon design

The main motivation of this thesis is creating a system which can get text as input and build a knowledge structure of it. Thus the system will be able to simulate human beings? knowledge base. Additionally the system will be able to answer questions on the knowledge base. The system is designed as a shell and has user interfaces for maintaining and extending lexicon and morphological rules. Thus the system is easily extendible and in one point of view, it is language independent. A linguist capable of supplying all information on the language can develop a system specific for that language. Note that; as the design of the system is done on an agglutinative language, some extensions on the software may be needed for the execution of grammar rules on different types of languages.