Fall

Decisions taken in parliament in the world affect societies and countries. These writings in parliaments are an important and significant resource for social scientists and political scientists. Most countries in the world publish their own parliamentary documents. However,these transcripts are not sufficiently understood by the public. It is the duty of linguists and NLP researchers to ensure that this resource is understandable. A study was carried out that collected all minutes of the Grand National Assembly of Turkish Parliament (TBMM) between 1920 and 20151.

Chatbots have become a popular communication tool with the recent improvements in NLP and machine learning techniques. We observed that every year same questions about regulations are asked over and over among the student groups. In our project we aimed to build a chatbot which answers to most frequently asked questions regarding rules and regulations of Bogazici University. We used Naive Bayes and Deep Neural Network as models to train our program with questions asked in previous years. In order to make our chatbot easily accessible we used a popular messaging platform, Telegram.

Music transcription is the transformation of musical sound signals into human-readable form. Some trained people could achieve this task, with the help of their education and the human intuition. But it is very challenging to develop an automated transcriber, because we need to equip machines with this intuition. We do not realize it often, but there is great mathematical harmony in music. So if we could figure out the aspect of mathematics thoroughly, it would help us develop new technologies for the analysis and synthesis of music.