Two-level Description of Turkish Morphology

: This paper describes a full two-level morphological description 5,9 of Turkish word structures. The description has been implemented using the PC-KIMMO environment 2 and is based on a root word lexicon of about 23,000 roots words. The phonetic rules of contemporary Turkish spoken in Turkey have been encoded using 22 two-level rules while the morphotactics of the agglutinative word structures have been encoded as nite-state machines for verbal, nominal paradigms and other categories. Almost all the special cases of, and exceptions to phonological and morphological rules have been taken into account. In this paper, we describe the rules and the nite state machines along with examples and a discussion of how various special cases were handled. We also describe some known limitations and problems with this description. We then brie y describe various natural language processing applications that use this description as the morphological analysis component.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Kemal Oflazer
• Keywords: EACL 1993, Natural Language Processing, Turkish Word Structures, Two-level Morphological Description, Word Structures