Turkish treebanking: Unifying and constructing efforts


Türk U., Atmaca F., ÖZATEŞ Ş. B., Köksal A., Öztürk B., GÜNGÖR T., ...Daha Fazla

13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, LAW 2019, held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019, Florence, İtalya, 01 Ağustos 2019, ss.166-177, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Florence
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.166-177
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, we present the re-annotation of the Turkish PUD Treebank and the first annotation of the Turkish National Corpus Universal Dependency (henceforth TNC-UD) Treebank as part of our efforts for unifying and extending the Turkish universal dependency treebanks. In accordance with the Universal Dependencies’ guidelines and the necessities of Turkish grammar, both treebanks, the Turkish PUD Treebank and TNC-UD, were revised with regards to their syntactic relations. The TNC-UD is planned to have 10,000 sentences. In this paper, we present the first 500 sentences along with the re-annotation of the PUD Treebank. Moreover, this paper also offers the parsing results of a graph-based neural parser on the previous and re-annotated PUD, as well as the TNC-UD. In light of the comparisons, even though we observe a slight decrease in the attachment scores of the Turkish PUD treebank, we demonstrate that the annotation of the TNC-UD improves the parsing accuracy of Turkish. In addition to the treebanks, we have also constructed a custom annotation software with advanced filtering and morphological editing options. Both of the treebanks, including a full edit-history and the annotation guidelines, as well as the custom software are publicly available online under an open license.