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Machine Translation Between Turkic Languages

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Turkish belongs to the Turkic family of languages and these languages exhibit tremendous similarity when it comes to morphological and grammatical structure but have somewhat different lexicons owing to various historical, geographical, and cultural interactions with neighboring languages. In this chapter we briefly cover the similarities and differences of these languages and introduce a machine translation methodology that exploits the similarities among these languages. This methodology relies on rule-based and statistical components and can be applicable for not only Turkic languages but also any other cognate language pairs.

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Notes

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    For example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkiclanguages (Accessed Sept. 14, 2017).

  2. 2.

    Note that the minor variants of these languages are not shown for the sake of clarity.

  3. 3.

    Second person plural possessive agreement suffix.

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    A. Cüneyd Tantuğ & Eşref Adalı

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Doha-Education City, Qatar

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Tantuğ, A.C., Adalı, E. (2018). Machine Translation Between Turkic Languages. In: Oflazer, K., Saraçlar, M. (eds) Turkish Natural Language Processing. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90165-7_11

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