Apr
24

Prof. Dr. Şükriye Ruhi, head of the Spoken Turkish Corpus Project, passes away

Our dear professor, the head of the Spoken Turkish Corpus project, Prof. Dr. Şükriye Ruhi passed away due to cancer on 16 April 2015. Prof. Dr. Şükriye Ruhi will always be remembered by her significant contributions to linguistics discipline. May she rest in peace.

  • What is a Corpus?

    • A corpus is a large, usually computerized, database of spoken and/or written texts of a language, which allows for “searching for, retrieveing, sorting and calculating lingusitic data” (McEnery & Wilson 1996: 17).

  • Aim of the Project

    • The aim of METU Spoken Turkish Corpus Project (ODT-STD) is to construct a linguistically analyzed corpus consisting of one million words of face-to-face or mediated interactions in contemporary Turkish. The corpus will be made available to academia and researchers in all areas of studies related to language.

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