Abstract

We present the issues that we have encountered in designing a treebank architecture for Turkish along with rationale for the choices we have made for various representation schemes. In the resulting representation, the information encoded in the complex agglutinative word structures are represented as a sequence of inflectional groups separated by derivational boundaries. The syntactic relations are encoded as labeled dependency relations among segments of lexical items marked by derivation boundaries. Our current work involves refining a set of treebank annotation guidelines and developing a sophisticated annotation tool with an extendable plug-in architecture for morphological analysis, morphological disambiguation and syntactic annotation disambiguation.

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