Parsing Turkish using the lexical functional grammar formalism
Date
1995Source Title
Machine Translation
Print ISSN
0922-6567
Publisher
Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
293 - 319
Language
English
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Abstract
This paper describes our work on parsing Turkish using the lexical-functional grammar formalism [11]. This work represents the first effort for wide-coverage syntactic parsing of Turkish. Our implementation is based on Tomita's parser developed at Carnegie Mellon University Center for Machine Translation. The grammar covers a substantial subset of Turkish including structurally simple and complex sentences, and deals with a reasonable amount of word order freeness. The complex agglutinative morphology of Turkish lexical structures is handled using a separate two-level morphological analyzer, which has been incorporated into the syntactic parser. After a discussion of the key relevant issues regarding Turkish grammar, we discuss aspects of our system and present results from our implementation. Our initial results suggest that our system can parse about 82% of the sentences directly and almost all the remaining with very minor pre-editing. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Keywords
Lexical functional grammarNatural language grammar development
Parsing
Turkish
Computational linguistics
Computer aided language translation
Computer systems
Data reduction
Data structures
Formal languages
Complex agglutinative morphology
Lexical functional grammar formalism
Machine translation
Morphological analyzer
Parsing Turkish
Syntactic parsing
Turkish lexical structures
Natural language processing systems