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In this paper, we propose a set of language resources for building Turkish language processing applications. Specifically, we present a finite-state implementation of a morphological parser, an averaged perceptron-based morphological disambiguator, and compilation of a web corpus. Turkish is an agglutinative language with a highly productive inflectional and derivational morphology. We present an implementation of a morphological parser based on two-level morphology. This parser is one of the most complete parsers for Turkish and it runs independent of any other external system such as PC-KIMMO in contrast to existing parsers. Due to complex phonology and morphology of Turkish, parsing introduces some ambiguous parses. We developed a morphological disambiguator with accuracy of about 98% using averaged perceptron algorithm. We also present our efforts to build a Turkish web corpus of about 423 million words.
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Sak, H., Güngör, T., Saraçlar, M. (2008). Turkish Language Resources: Morphological Parser, Morphological Disambiguator and Web Corpus. In: Nordström, B., Ranta, A. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. GoTAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85287-2_40
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