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Native Languages and Cultures in the Modern Changing World, no.2, pp.45-61, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Seyitbek Epos which was formed
in late 17th and early 18th centuries, is a continuiation
of Kurmanbek Epos, which is a co-text/second narrative of the book
“Coodarbeşim-Seyitbek” published in Bişkek, 1971 by Orozbay Urmambetov’s Kyrghyz
Sciences Academia, Til Cana Institute of Literature. The epos’ theme is the
battles of Kyrghyz People with others, especially Kalmuks. Thanks to advances
in information technologies, the analysis of languages with statistical and
rule based computational linguistic methods has become possible. In this
context, nowadays the subject of “Collocation” is studied with computational
methods. The study of “Oath, War and Loot” concepts in Seyitbek Epos with
computational modeling methods was undertaken because this text contains rich
semantic conceptual-orientational collocation data fit to be used in software. The
epos was digitized as a plaintext (.txt) file, the collocation vocabulary was
processed in AntConc 3.5.9 (2020) software and the collocations in the text
were studied using different statistical analyses such as Log-likelihood, MI
score, T-score, and Dice coefficient. In this study where statistical significance
was used, algorithms that measure how many times the words have appeared
together were used. In this way, the subject of collocation was evaluated by
comparing both collocation vocabulary findings detected by the researchers
using linguistic methods, and those detected by natural language processing
methods.