Universal dependencies for Turkish

Umut Sulubacak; Memduh Gökırmak; Francis Tyers; Çağrı Çöltekin; Joakim Nivre; Gülşen Eryiğit

Universal dependencies for Turkish

Umut Sulubacak, Memduh Gökırmak, Francis Tyers, Çağrı Çöltekin, Joakim Nivre, Gülşen Eryiğit

Department of Digital Humanities

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The Universal Dependencies (UD) project was conceived after the substantial recent interest in unifying annotation schemes across languages. With its own annotation principles and abstract inventory for parts of speech, morphosyntactic features and dependency relations, UD aims to facilitate multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. This paper presents the Turkish IMST-UD Treebank, the first Turkish treebank to be in a UD release. The IMST-UD Treebank was automatically converted from the IMST Treebank, which was also recently released. We describe this conversion procedure in detail, complete with mapping tables. We also present our evaluation of the parsing performances of both versions of the IMST Treebank. Our findings suggest that the UD framework is at least as viable for Turkish as the original annotation framework of the IMST Treebank.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Editors	Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
Number of pages	11
Place of Publication	Osaka, Japan
Publisher	The Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	Dec 2016
Pages	3444-3454
ISBN (Electronic)	978-4-87974-702-0
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Osaka, Japan Duration: 11 Dec 2016 → 16 Dec 2016 Conference number: 26

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6121 Languages
113 Computer and information sciences

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Sulubacak, U, Gökırmak, M, Tyers, F, Çöltekin, Ç, Nivre, J & Eryiğit, G 2016, Universal dependencies for Turkish. in Y Matsumoto & R Prasad (eds), Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers. The Association for Computational Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, pp. 3444-3454, International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, 11/12/2016.

Universal dependencies for Turkish. / Sulubacak, Umut; Gökırmak, Memduh; Tyers, Francis et al.
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers. ed. / Yuji Matsumoto; Rashmi Prasad. Osaka, Japan: The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. p. 3444-3454.

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