Parallel proposition bank construction for Turkish

PropBank is the bank of propositions which contains hand-annotated corpus for predicate-argument information and semantic roles or arguments. It aims to provide an extensive dataset for enhancing NLP applications such as information retrieval, machine translation, information extraction, and question answering by adding a semantic information layer to the syntactic annotation. Via the added semantic layer, syntactic parser re nements can be achieved which increases the efficiency and improves application performance. The aim of this thesis is to construct proposition bank for Turkish Language. Only preliminary studies were carried out in terms of Turkish PropBank. This study is one of the pioneers for the language. In this study, a hand annotated Turkish PropBank is constructed from the translation of the parallel English PropBank corpus, other PropBank studies for Turkish language examined and compared with the proposition bank constructed, automatic PropBank construction for Turkish from both parallel sentence trees and phrase sentences is analyzed and automatic proposition banks generated for Turkish.