In Adana, southern Türkiye, recognized for its cultural richness and historical past, the nation’s most complete digital proverbs dictionary containing over 18,000 proverbs has been created utilizing synthetic intelligence.
With a goal to extend the variety of proverbs to 30,000 inside a yr, venture chief professor Engin Çetin, a college member at Çukurova College’s (ÇÜ) Division of Turkish Language and Literature, mentioned, “Readers will be capable to discover all proverbs recorded from our earliest texts, such because the Orkhon Inscriptions, as much as the early twentieth century. Our venture can also be a historic research encompassing a 1,200-year interval.”
Çetin initiated the “Turkish Proverbs Undertaking from Central Asia to Anatolia” two years in the past. As a part of the venture, proverbs had been compiled from the oldest Turkish texts found in Central Asia to these written in fashionable occasions. These 1000’s of proverbs had been categorized and become a complete dictionary that includes instance sentences. Using synthetic intelligence, the proverbs had been digitized and made obtainable to the general public on the official Çukurova College web site.
Designed to be user-friendly with definitions, historic contexts, and instance sentences, this assortment is effective for college students finishing assignments, academics assigning work, and researchers conducting comparative and historic research.
Highlighting that the venture has produced probably the most complete dictionary ever created for Turkish, professor Engin Çetin defined, “Essentially the most intensive proverbs dictionaries ready for Turkish till now embrace round 10,000 proverbs. However our venture at the moment comprises over 18,000 proverbs, and we nonetheless have a yr to work on it.”
“We count on this quantity to achieve practically 30,000; whereas we name this probably the most complete venture for Turkish, we are able to confidently say it’s additionally probably the most intensive venture in world languages. In our analysis, we couldn’t discover every other work on proverbs in any language worldwide that’s as intensive as this one,” he added.
Explaining the function of synthetic intelligence within the venture, professor Çetin mentioned, “We developed software program to digitize 1000’s of proverbs, which operates underneath a website linked to Çukurova College; growing this software program took a number of months, we’ve got been inputting all of the proverbs recognized because the period of Central Asia into this software program.”
“Our researchers and workers enter the proverbs one after the other, categorizing them by which means and assigning key phrases, readers can’t solely discover the precise proverb they’re trying to find but additionally see a listing of comparable proverbs, their definitions, historic contexts, and whether or not the which means is constructive or damaging,” he mentioned.
Reflecting on the inspiration behind the venture, Çetin shared that it stemmed from his childhood, influenced by his mother and father’ frequent use of proverbs. “Our venture started in 2022, and we’ll proceed growing it for an additional yr. Readers will be capable to discover proverbs recorded in our earliest texts, from the Orkhon Inscriptions to the early twentieth century. Our venture is a historic research masking a 1,200-year interval,” he added.
