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TopicMachine:conversion prediction in search advertising using latent topic models
No full textSearch Engine Marketing (SEM) agencies manage thousands of search keywords for their clients. The campaign management dashboards provided by advertisement brokers have interfaces to change search campaign attributes. Using these dashboards, advertisers create test variants for various bid choices, keyword ideas, and advertisement text options. Later on, they conduct controlled experiments for selecting the best performing variants. Given a large keyword portfolio and many variants to consider, campaign management can easily become a burden on even experienced advertisers. In order to target users in need of a particular service, advertisers have to determine the purchase intents or information needs of target users. Once the target intents are determined, advertisers can target those users with relevant search keywords. In order to formulate information needs and to scale campaign management with increasing number of keywords, we propose a framework called TopicMachine, where we learn the latent topics hidden in the available search terms reports. Our hypothesis is that these topics correspond to the set of information needs that best match-make a given client with users. In our experiments, TopicMachine outperformed its closest competitor by 41 percent on predicting total user subscriptions
Between acceptance and resistance a case study of Turkish Soap operas in Egypt
No full textDepending on their quality and popularity, television series can reach beyond the country in which they are produced. In this way, they contribute to both a common culture and a global economy, via television or the internet. Turkish soap operas started to have a significant share of the world soap opera market in the past decade. They are sold abroad and reach a vast audience. This study focuses on the reasons why people watch and enjoy Turkish soap operas in the Middle East, especially in Egypt. I have used Mikhael Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus as my theoretical framework. To analyse these hypotheses, 22 informants have been interviewed and 101 Egyptians surveyed. Admiration for Turkish soap operas, especially in Muslim countries, has been evaluated in terms of Islam, prohibitions and breaking rules, and Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque has been rebuilt as an inner carnivalesque that cannot be externalized especially for Egyptian audiences. Survey and interview results show that Turkish soap operas act as private spheres in which Egyptian audiences rest and keep their head above water for a while, as well as identifying with the characters to some ways. This study finds that while Turkish soap operas generally get credit and sympathy from Egyptian audiences, there is also a number of people who set their face against Turkish television series on the basis of a variety of objections.
Keywords: Turkish Soap Operas, Egypt, Carnivalesque, BakhtinAbstract .......................................................................................................................iv
Öz...............................................................................................................................v Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................vi
Table of Contents .......................................................................................................vii
List of Interviewees and Abbreviations ...................................................................... ix
CHAPTER 1................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 2 .............................................................................................................10
TELEVISION AND SOAP OPERA ......................................................................... 10
2.1. Television and Daily Life ................................................................................... 10
2.2.Television in Egypt and its Role in Daily Life .................................................... 13
2.3. The History of Soap Operas ................................................................................ 14
2.4. Turkish Soap Operas in Egypt ............................................................................ 19
2.5. Who Watches Turkish Soap Operas? .................................................................. 28
2.6. Survey Results.....................................................................................................31
CHAPTER 3..............................................................................................................40
A LOVE-HATE RELATION .................................................................................... 40
3.1. Turkish Soap Opera Mania in Egypt as the Carnivalesque................................. 40
3.2. One Side of the Medallion and Bakhtin .............................................................. 44
3.3. Turkish Soap Operas and the Islamic Cultural Sphere in Egypt ......................... 49
3.4. The Other Side of the Medallion ......................................................................... 51
CHAPTER 4..............................................................................................................55
CARTOONS AND FILM .......................................................................................... 55
4.1. What is the Aim of Cartoons? ............................................................................. 55
4.2. Turkish Soap Operas as Seen by Cartoonists ...................................................... 55
4.3. The Influence of Turkish Soap Operas on Egyptian Cinema ............................ 80
CHAPTER 5..............................................................................................................83
CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................................83
BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................... 8
Seyyar Sahne : exploring craftsmanship in acting
No full textThis study explores craftsmanship in acting based upon theatre practice of the theatre group named Seyyar Sahne. Seyyar Sahne, perceiving acting above all as a multi- dimensional research activity, possesses an important position at theatre in Turkey by means of the dynamism acquired through this perception. The main argument of thesis derived from the assertion that a theatre realm, in which the actor’s curiosity towards himself and his environment is dead, should be enlivened. Within this context, it is emphasized, this attempt of enlivenment can be achieved through a similar self- devotion belonging to craftsman regarding his craft. In this sense, the claim of Seyyar Sahne’s work principle is rooted in such devotion is supported with the examples of the play Tehlikeli Oyunlar and the project of Theatre Madrasa. In this sense while examining the development of the projects in question: personal experience, observations and interviews are taken as sources alongside literature. As Seyyar Sahne’s ongoing project Theatre Madrasa also shows, skill of expertise, which comes along with the embodiment of craftsmanship, holds the potential to keep the public realm as much alive as the private realm.
Keywords: acting, craftsmanship, theatre, laboratory theatre, dialogue, novel adaptation, solo performancesABSTRACT.................................................................................................................v
ÖZ..............................................................................................................................vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................... vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................... viii
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 1: Journey of Seyyar Sahne: From an Amateur Occupation to Craft ....... 8
1.1. Foundation of Seyyar Sahne .............................................................................. 8
1.1.1. Unification .................................................................................................. 9
1.1.2. Inspiration ................................................................................................. 11
1.2. “Theatre Craft” through Sennett’s Craftsmanship .......................................... 13
1.2.1. Theatre Craft in Amateur Enthusiasm ...................................................... 15
1.2.2. Theatre Laboratory ................................................................................... 19
1.3. Encounter with Grotowski ............................................................................... 22
1.3.1. Grotowski’s Poor Theatre ......................................................................... 23
1.3.2. Paratheatre and Communal Experience .................................................... 27
1.3.3. Seyyar Sahne Evolves ............................................................................... 29
CHAPTER 2: Tehlikeli Oyunlar: The Channels of Dialogue .................................... 33
2.1. Dialogue with Director and Author ................................................................. 39
2.1.1. Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster ..................................................... 40
2.2. Dialogue with Actor’s Own Self ..................................................................... 46
2.2.1. Diderot and Paradox of Acting ................................................................. 48
2.2.2. Dialogue in Storytelling ............................................................................ 51
2.3. Dialogue with the Audience ............................................................................ 54
CHAPTER 3: Theatre Madrasa: Seyyar Sahne’s Workshop ..................................... 59
3.1. Performance Research Center ......................................................................... 60
3.1.1. Theatre Camps .......................................................................................... 62
3.2. Structure of Madrasa ....................................................................................... 65
CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................................70
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................7
Low-complexity supervised learning for gesture and shape recognition
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.Classication is a machine learning task in which the objective is to categorize given samples according to their attributes. Gesture Recognition (GR) and Shape Recognition (SR) are two classication examples. Some daily-life applications of these include Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
GR is a challenging classication problem often used in human-computer interaction applications to provide a natural interface between user and computer. Since the same gesture might be performed with dierent speeds, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is needed to nd the optimal alignment between two time sequences. Oftentimes a pre- processing of sequences is required to remove variations between the reference gestures and the test gestures. We discuss a set of pre-processing methods to make the gesture recognition mechanism robust to these variations. DTW computes a dissimilarity mea- sure by time-warping the sequences on a per sample basis by using the distance between the current reference and test sequences. However, all body joints involved in a gesture are not equally important in computing the distance between two sequence samples. We propose a weighted DTW method that weights joints by optimizing a discriminant ratio.
SR is another classication problem with increasing number of applications from OCR to pedestrian detection. Decision tree is a good choice of classier for shape recognition because it is easy to implement and visualize and has lower computational complexity. Bagging randomized decision trees as random forests increases the accuracy rates if the trees are weakly correlated. We propose using random rectangles in combination with random forests and test our method on OCR and GR datasets. We show that the accuracy of our method is similar to the OCR state-of-the-art and better than the GR state-of-the-art, while executing signicantly faster, which makes our proposed method a good t for real-time object/shape recognition. Then discuss how a simple feature such as a random rectangle can perform similar to the complex statistical and structural features designed for shape recognition. Finally we analyze the eect of our parameters.
Keywords: Gesture Recognition, Dynamic Time Warping, Kinect, Shape Recognition, Random Forests, Decisin TreesContents
Declaration of Authorship ii
Abstract iv
Öz v
Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
1 Robust Gesture Recognition Using Feature Pre-Processing and Weighted Dynamic Time Warping
1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 1.2 Related Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Data Acquisition and Feature Pre-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Dynamic Time Warping for Gesture Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4.1 Boosting The Reliability of DTW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4.2 Weighted DTW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.5 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Low-Complexity Shape Recognition Using Random Forest Classiers with Random Rectangle Features 16
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.2 Shape Features for Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3 Decision Tree Based Classication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3.1 Decision Trees and Random Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3.2 Random Forest Classiers For Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3.3 Viola-Jones Object Detection Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.4 Random Forest Classiers with Random Rectangle Features . . . . . . . . 25
2.4.1 Rectangle Feature As A Linear Combination . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5 Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.5.1 Optical Character Recognition Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5.2 Gesture Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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The military in Egypt (1798-2013) : the genealogy of the militant fuctional group in the secular age
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.This thesis problematizes resistance to modern imperial power. By addressing the Egyptian military as a functional group, this thesis argues the military is the indispensable guardian of the Western Matrix of control. Reviewing the Western literature on civil-military relations, the thesis concludes this literature is historically anachronistic, sociologically obsolete, and politically opaque. Beginning with the 2013 coup, this thesis argues we could not understand this coup unless we trace it back to the late 17th and 18th centuries. Thus, this thesis examines the genealogy of the militant functional group since its beginning after the French imperial invasion in 1798 and through four phases. First, modern disciplinary power was implanted in Egypt, and Islam was displaced as a frame of reference, together comprising the weltanschauung upheaval. From that moment Egypt entered its secular age, and its ruling elite became a mere functional group. Second, the British invasion proceeded the French mission by completely detaching Egypt from the Ottoman state and creating Egypt as a territorial space with territorialized institutions (Cromer’s automaton), in which the British created a system of secular benign nationalism. However, although the Cairo Burn signaled the failure of the colonially created state, in the third phase the American Nasser’s coup restored and reinstalled Cromer’s broken automaton, Nasser clung to the colonially created nation state as a structure for social organization, and kept trying to drive Cromer’s automaton by absolute oppression turning the Egyptians into “Misrables”. And fourth, this thesis tackled the American reorientation of Cromer’s automaton, why the secret CIA-Nasser relation turned into a blunt American-Egyptian strategic relation, how Egypt was militarily and economically tied to the US, the American role in the development of the officers’ republic, how this officers’ economic empire was constructed, and their functional group was established through isolation/seclusion and infiltration/ubiquity. Keywords: Egypt; the military in Egypt; civil military relations; power and resistance.Abstract ........................................................................................................................ v
ÖZ ................................................................................................................................ vi
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... viii
Table Of Contents......................................................................................................... x
List Of Figures ............................................................................................................. xii
Chapter
1. Introduction: The Hoax Of Civil-Military Relations................................................ 1
1.1. The Matrix And Its Modus Operandi................................................................. 9
1.2. The Ten Paradigmatic Themes Of Modern “Egypt” ........................................ 20
1.3. “The Democracy Game”: Consent Or Conquest ............................................. 23
1.4. The Theoretical And Methodological Framework .......................................... 29
1.4.1. Meta-Methodology .................................................................................. 29
1.4.2. Methodological Framework ..................................................................... 32
1.4.3.The Explanatory Methodology: The Paradigm As A Methodological Tool33
1.4.4. The Process And Procedures .................................................................... 35
1.5. Prologue: The Pimp In A Post-Neo-Imperialist World .................................... 36
2. “Egypt” In The Secular Age: The Evolution Of The Ruling Elite As A Functional
Group.......................................................................................................................... 44
3. Cromer’s Automaton Pulling The Strings Behind The Scenes: Secular
Nationalism ................................................................................................................ 69
4. The Gang And The “Misrables”: Reinstalling The Automaton .......................... 103
5. Camp David: The Matrix Reorienting The Automaton ...................................... 124
6. Conclusion: The Jihadi Clinch............................................................................. 159
References ................................................................................................................ 16
Repesentations of the Kurdish Questions in the new cinema of Turkey
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.This thesis aims to explore representations of the Kurdish question in the new cinema of Turkey that has emerged since the 1990s. The study focuses mainly on how the Kurdish question –by all actors from Kurds to Turks– has been represented, and what kind of representational strategies have been operated in films. In order to read filmic representations thoroughly, the study uses diagnostic critique for analysis. Diagnostic reading of films requires considering filmic texts within their context, and results in giving insight to social realities. Within this framework, nineteen films entailing the Kurdish question in the new cinema of Turkey were selected. The selected films expand over a period starting from 1996, which is accepted as the beginning of the new cinema of Turkey, to the first years of the 2010s. The films were critically read via approaches of theoretical texts, other films, or audience reactions. As a result, it has been seen that the films entailing the Kurdish question in the new cinema of Turkey embodied around three major themes: fantasizing the question, facing the other, and reckoning with the past. In the end, these three themes can be read as indications of different social demands which can be foundABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................................................... v
ÖZ .......................................................................................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................................. vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... viii
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 1. HOW TO READ FILMS? TOWARDS A DIAGNOSTIC CRITIQUE ................................................ 5
1.1. From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism ................................................................ 5
1.2. Lacanian Subject and the Psychoanalytic Film Theory .......................................... 12
1.3. Hegemony, Ideology, and Cinema ............................................................................ 17
1.4 Reading Film Diagnostically ...................................................................................... 23
2. THE KURDISH QUESTION: RECOGNITION, CONFESSION, AND DENIAL ......................... 26 2.1. From the Empire to the Republic ............................................................................. 26
2.2. National Struggle and the Denial of the Question ................................................... 29
2.3. Nineties Experience and Onwards ........................................................................... 33
3. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE KURDISH QUESTION IN THE NEW CINEMA OF TURKEY ............................................................................................................................................................ 38
3.1. National Fantasies: The Many Faces of the Kurdish Other .................................... 38 3.1.1. Childish Heroes from a Fantasized Past ........................................................... 39 3.1.2. Mythic Enemies in a Manichean Battle ............................................................. 42
3.1.3. Proper Citizens of a Benevolent Mother ........................................................... 47 3.1.4. Beyond Fantasy: Towards Revealing the Real ................................................. 51
3.2. Impossible Desires: The Unknown Faces of the Kurdish Other ............................ 54
3.2.1. Inevitable Encounters with a Peaceful Enemy ................................................. 56
3.2.2. Recusant Children of a Surviving Language ..................................................... 63 3.2.3. Beyond Desire: Towards Becoming the Other ................................................. 69
3.3. Return of the Oppressed: Facing the Nineties of the Kurdish Question ............... 75
3.3.1. The Children of ‘Them’: Fırat, Gülistan, and Cemal ......................................... 77
3.3.2. The Children of ‘Us’: Nuri Kaya, 69, and the Others ......................................... 80
3.3.3. Beyond Cinema: Towards Standing against the ‘Father’ ................................. 83 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................................. 87
REFERENCES .................................................................................................................................................. 92
APPENDIX CREDITS OF THE FILMS MENTIONED IN THE THESIS .........................................................10
The Anatolian railway employess (1888-1914)
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir.This thesis focuses on the working conditions of the Anatolian Railway Company employees within the framework of political conjuncture and from a labor perspective in the period between 1888 and 1914, in the Ottoman Empire. It relies on primary and secondary sources to examine the working conditions, the establishment of the labor organization and the challenges it faced, protests and strikes, and the issue of reconciliation between the state and workers. The central goal of the thesis is the discussion the working conditions of the railway workers including such exceptional situations as contagious diseases and incidences regarding the abduction of workers, and the negative effect of these conditions on work life. The characteristics and the importance of the workplace, the political conjuncture, and the labor policy of the government should be considered as interactive forces when examining working life. Another issue addressed in this thesis is the main motive of the government in preparing the Strike Law of 1909, which was an antistrike legislation was the strike of the Anatolian railway employees in 1908. The organizational power of the railway employees and its effects on other workers in other sectors need to be considered regarding the importance the government distributed to the railway employees’ strike. One of the main assertions of this thesis is the need to write Ottoman history from a bottom up perspective and from the viewpoint of workers. Thus this study sheds light on not only the international and domestic political situation and conjuncture, but also the lives of the railway workers in order to make up for the long negligence of researchers and historians in this regard so far. This study aims of making a contribution to the efforts to fill the gap that currently exists regarding the history of the Ottoman railways and Ottoman labor history.Abstract ………………………………………………………………………...….iii Öz………………………………………………………………………………......iv Acknowledgements………….……………………………………………………...v
Table of Contents………………………………………………………………......vi
List of Tables……………………………………………………………………..viii
List of Figures and Maps…………………………………………………...……...ix Abbreviations Used in Footnotes..............................................................................x
CHAPTER
1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................
1 2. A GLANCE AT LABOR HISTORIOGRAPHY.................................5
2.1. Theoretical Advances in Historiography………..…..…….……….…5
2.2. A Concise Background of Labor History...……..……………………7
2.2.1. Labor History in the Western World ………….……....……..8
2.2.2. Labor History in studies on late the Ottoman and Republican Period…………………………….……………………………………….10
2.3. Global Labor History……….…………………………………….…15
2.4. The Possibility of the Adaptation of Transnational Approach to Ottoman History Studies. .…………………………………………………...20
2.5. Conclusion…………………………………………………….....…..23
3. ANATOLIAN RAILWAYS: THE COMPANY, LINES, AND THE OUTCOMES OF THE INVESTMENTS…………….……………….….….26
3.1. The Development of Railways in the World…………….…….…......27
3.2. The Development of Railways Built in the Ottoman Empire.…….....28
3.2.1. Why the Ottoman Empire?.......................................................28
3.2.2. Railway Investments in the Ottoman Empire…..………….…29
3.3. The New Period in the Railway Age………………………………....33
3.3.1. The Anatolian Railway Company and the Construction Process………………………………………………………………….....34
3.3.2. The New Period with Deutsche Bank.……….………..….…..37
3.3.3. Izmit-Adapazarı Line…………………………….………...…38
3.3.4. The Extension of Anatolian Railways …………….………..38 3.3.5. Eskişehir-Konya Line ……………………………………….40
3.4. The Outcome of Investments……...………………….…………........43
3.5. Conclusion…………………………………………….…………...…47
4. THE ANATOLIAN RAILWAY EMPLOYEES……………………...….….49
4.1. Terminological Complexity…………………………………….....…49
4.2. Some Examples from Arhangelos regarding the Working Life …….50
4.3. The Composition of Labor Force in the Company………...…...……52
4.4. Working with an Epidemic of Cholera…………………...……….....58
4.5. The Organization of the Employees and the Great Strike of the Employees…………………………………………………………………....61
4.6. The Fraternity Union of the Ottoman Anatolian Railway Employees (Anadolu Osmanlı Demiryolları Memurin ve Müstahdemin Cemiyet-i Uhuvvetkarisi )……………………………………………………………….62 4.7. The Great Strike of the Railway Employees…….…………….……..71
4.8. Conclusion…………......…………………………...………….….....78
5. CONCLUSION…….…………………………....…………………….….….80
APPENDICES ……………………………………………………..….….....86
A. Official Text of the Union Regulations (in Ottoman Turkish and French with modern Turkish transliteration)…………………………………..…....86
B. Photographs of the Anatolian railways and workers……………..……..116
BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………….....12
Scalable fast dispersive scanner
No full textTezin basılısı İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi'ndedir