A link grammar for Turkish
Author
İstek, Özlem
Advisor
Çiçekli, İlyas
Date
2006Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Syntactic parsing, or syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing an input
sequence in order to determine its grammatical structure, i.e. the formal
relationships between the words of a sentence, with respect to a given grammar.
In this thesis, we developed the grammar of Turkish language in the link
grammar formalism. In the grammar, we used the output of a fully described
morphological analyzer, which is very important for agglutinative languages like
Turkish. The grammar that we developed is lexical such that we used the
lexemes of only some function words and for the rest of the word classes we
used the morphological feature structures. In addition, we preserved the some of
the syntactic roles of the intermediate derived forms of words in our system.