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I have cited authors whose first or last names start with the capital i in Turkish \.{I}in the BibTeX file. I am using spbasic.bst and natbib

BibTeX produced .bbl file with \{I} instead of \.{I}. With other style files I have used I never had this problem. This does not occur with say \c{S} in the author names.

Here is a bibtex entry

@inproceedings{aycse2011,
  title={Extraction of semantic word relations in {Turkish} from dictionary definitions},
  author={Ay{\c{s}}e {\c{S}}erbet{\c{c}}i and Zeynep Orhan and  {\.{I}}lknur Pehlivan},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics},
  pages={11--18},
  year={2011},
  organization={Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

If I use {\.I} it produces "i", If I use {\.{I}} as above, it does not even go through pdflatex (the . is eaten by bibtex somewhere along the way)

as in 

\bibitem[{{\c{S}}erbet{\c{c}}i et~al(2011){\c{S}}erbet{\c{c}}i, Orhan, and
  Pehlivan}]{aycse2011}
{\c{S}}erbet{\c{c}}i A, Orhan Z, Pehlivan {\I} (2011) Extraction of semantic
  word relations in {Turkish} from dictionary definitions. In: Proceedings of
  the ACL 2011 Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics, Association for
  Computational Linguistics, pp 11--18

and I get

! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.
l.32 ...}erbet{\c{c}}i A, Orhan Z, Pehlivan {\{I}}
                                                   (2011) Extraction of

I believe is specific to spbasic as I did not have a problem with other bib styles I use frequently (e.g. acl.bst)

Any suggestions?

daleif
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Kemal Oflazer
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  • Have you tried {\.{I}}? Otherwise please put a full example of such a bibtex entry – daleif Dec 18 '14 at 11:17
  • spbasic.bst has an aggresive remove dots macro. A work around is to put \newcommand{\dotI}{\.I} in your preamble and use {\dotI} in your bibliography file. – Andrew Swann Dec 19 '14 at 09:12

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