Universal Dependencies for Turkish
Umut Sulubacak, Memduh Gokirmak, Francis Tyers, Çağrı Çöltekin, Joakim Nivre, Gülşen Eryiğit
Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- C16-1325
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3444–3454
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-1325
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Umut Sulubacak, Memduh Gokirmak, Francis Tyers, Çağrı Çöltekin, Joakim Nivre, and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2016. Universal Dependencies for Turkish. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3444–3454, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Universal Dependencies for Turkish (Sulubacak et al., COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/C16-1325.pdf