2015 Fall - Senior Projects

A sentiment analysis system for Turkish tweets

Sentiment Analysis which is part of Natural Language Processing, means making text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials.

Students: Bünyamin İnce, Oğuzhan Karaçakır

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

An interactive tool to visualize Nazim Hikmet’s poetry

Digital Humanities is an area where computing and humanistic diciplines intersect.

Students: Özge Dağ, Onur Musaoğlu

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Authorship identification of Turkish poets

With the widespread of Internet and social media, the information flow growth unboundedly and without control .

Students: Burak Coşkun

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Automotive Data Analytic Platform

It is a software project that can find & show the instantaneous value, value performance in the past, value in the future by forecasting methods, performance of selling, regional habit of use and similar market trends of second hand vehicles.

Students: Burak Yılmaz

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Bogazici University 360° panoramic virtual tour

Every year after university entrance exams, students struggle to find out which university is the best suitable option for them.

Students: Sinan Ünlü, Dorukhan Buluç

Advisors: Fikret Gürgen

Database Management System for Beta Lactamase

Beta lactamase antibiotics are one of the widely used antibiotics in the world.

Students: Buse Buz, Basri Yılmaztürk

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Decision tree learning algorithms

This work is about analyzing decision tree algorithms and visualizing what is learnt as well as how the learning is done.

Students: Fatih Doğan, Mert Can Çüçen

Advisors: Ethem Alpaydın

Detecting experimental methods for physical interactions in biomedical texts

Our aim is developing a text mining system consisting of BioC-compatible modules integrated together to assist biocurators.

Students: Zehra Melce Hüsünbeyi

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Facial age estimations for elderly

Facial Age Estimation for Elderly mainly aims to analyze whether the Alzheimer’s patients look younger than their age or not using the data set gathered from Çapa Hospital.

Students: Çağla Balçık

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Flexible and eID/ePassport Integrated frontdesk software

Our aim is to create an application that runs on a remote server for front desk use, which can be used in hotels, schools or office buildings.

Students: Umut Uz, Hüseyin Onur Surat

Advisors: Mehmet Ufuk Çağlayan

Hashtag segmentation of Conversational Tweets in Turkish

Twitter is the latest social networking tool which affects everything related to the person.

Students: Utku Sarıdede, Şevket Topuz

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Information visualization for efficient data usage in schools

In this project, the main goal was the visualization of the student data in primary and high schools in a single application page which gives the most usable information in an efficient way.

Students: Mustafa Oğuz Türkkan

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Learning by doing in virtual reality

Aim of the project allowing people to gain experience in a virtual world before jumping into real world using Virtual Reality technology.

Students: Levent Özmen

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

Matrix and Tensor factorization for Customer behavior analysis

In this paper, we present a system to analyze consumer be- havior and cluster the customers accordingly.

Students: Cem Özen

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Monitoring Parkinsonian Hand Tremor Using Smartwatch

Parkinson’s disease is an illness which affects more than 1% of people over 55 while more than 3% of individuals over 75 years old.

Students: Cafer Tayyar Yörük, Naqibullah Danishjo

Advisors: Bert Arnrich

NLP library for Turkish

We address the problem of Part of Speech tagging for noisy texts in Turkish language.

Students: Murat Akif Dumlu

Advisors: Arzucan Özgür

Parallel Matching and graph coloring algorithms

In this project we worked, analyzed and discussed about scalable distributed-memory parallel algorithms for graph coloring and matching.

Students: Mehmet Bilal Yaşar, Abdullah Hanefi Önaldı

Advisors: Can Özturan

Salary prediction algorithm

In this proposal, we aim to find salary prediction algorithm.

Students: Mine Avcı

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Stylometric analysis of Nazim Hikmet’s poetry

Stylometry Analysis of Nazım Hikmet’s Poetry aims at analyzing Nazım Hikmet’s poetry, recovering useful attributes of his poetries from the style of his writing.

Students: Özge Küçükakça

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Tensor factorizations for knowledge base construction

This is a project which evolves Turkish text classification of two different classes (Financial texts or Random Wikipedia texts) and their prediction results.

Students: Mert Oğuz, Arda Çınar

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Time series Analysis via stochastic volatility models using MCMC methods

Time series analysis is used to estimate and predict behaviour of time dependent processes.

Students: Buğrahan Şahin

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Uniform sampling of graphs with a given degree sequence

Generating random graphs is an important topic with quite many applications.

Students: Barış Kaya

Advisors: Ali Taylan Cemgil

Using text analysis to determine the genealogy of Leonardo da Vinici’s manuscripts

Inspired from the manuscripts of Leonardos “Trattato Della Pittura”, in this project, we aim to measure and analyse the textual differantiation of several variants of a document and from these measurements, to determine the chronological order and the phylogenetic relations of the copies of a document.

Students: Mahmut Günhan Çolak

Advisors: Albert Ali Salah

Completed Projects - 2015 Fall