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Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Year: 2026

Type: other

Abstract: Identifying units, ’syntactic words’, for morphosyntactic analysis is important yet challenging for morphologically rich languages. In this paper we propose a set of guiding principles to determine units of morphosyntactic analysis, and apply them to the case of copular constructions in Turkic languages, in the context of Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. We also provide a survey of the practice in the Turkic UD treebanks published to date, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed tokenisation for a selection of Turkic languages.

Source: Underline Science Inc.

DOI: 10.48448/b4hr-0v48

Authors: Association for Computational Linguistics 2026, Akkurt, Furkan, Chontaeva, Bermet, Coltekin, Cagri, Dzhumalieva, Gulnur, Eslami, Soudabeh, Ivanova, Sardana, Kasieva, Aida, Mus, Nikolett, Washington, Jonathan N.

Institutions: University of Tübingen, Swarthmore College

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7155355741

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